A brand-new courthouse, just completed and built at tremendous taxpayer expense. All the bells and whistles. Ultra-modern facilities. And every time someone flushes the toilet, the sound resounds throughout the courtroom. Where is this courthouse located? The CNN headline didn’t say, but I had my suspicions before I checked the story out — and I was right!
(You need to have Java on your computer to use the link above. Or you can find it on CNN.com; a search for “toilet,” “court,” and “Nashville” ought to do the trick. I decline to offer comments about the linkage of those three words in other contexts.)