Our newest environmental crusader, ladies and gentlemen. Ms. Sheryl Crow. Listen closely to her ideas. They are entirely too revolutionary to be passed over.

Crow calls for limit on loo paper

Singer Sheryl Crow has said a ban on using too much toilet paper should be introduced to help the environment.

Crow has suggested using “only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on those pesky occasions where two to three could be required”.

“I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting”

“Although my ideas are in the earliest stages of development, they are, in my mind, worth investigating.

Crow has also commented on her website about how she thinks paper napkins “represent the height of wastefulness”.

She has designed a clothing line with what she calls a “dining sleeve”.

The sleeve is detachable and can be replaced with another “dining sleeve” after the diner has used it to wipe his or her mouth.

Genius, Ms. Crow. Ge-ni-us.

Seriously….this is a GREAT idea. If we all only used one piece of toilet paper, imagine how much more water and energy we could spend doing laundry to compensate!

Can we get some real solutions to pollution and energy waste? Can we get some celebrities who have real ways to use their positions to promote social change?

In the words of Sumreen, who’s gonna be your friend if they know you’re skimping on the TP?

Allah is the Protector of those who have faith: from the depths of darkness He will lead them forth into light. Of those who reject faith the patrons are the evil ones: from light they will lead them forth into the depths of darkness. They will be companions of the fire, to dwell therein.
Surat al-Baqarah, Verse 257

I realize i may be walking a fine line with this discussion but it’s something i’ve been thinking about for a while….something, really, that has been disturbing me for a while. Excuse me if it isn’t fully fleshed out yet. I’m still pondering it.

I remember in sophomore year of college i took a class with Professor Sarah Shields called “Modern Muslim World.” It was a good class with a good professor who was surprisingly pro-Muslim, considering our current global political situation. We studied some of the history of Iraq (the US was quite early in the war at that time) and watched a film about Saddam’s early interactions with Kurds and Shia’s. Anyone who knows anything about this relationship knows what an inhuman and hellish scenario it was, with Saddam and his henchman stopping at nothing to get control of the land and its inhabitants.

As i sat there watching this film, i felt myself getting angrier and angrier. Livid is more like it. Fumingly furious. And a new sensation that, as far as i can remember, never felt before - or at least never felt as strongly or in any way that particularly mattered.

Hatred.
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