When the New York Times is not demanding expansion of the state in taking more taxes and running our lives, it also is demanding an increased state presence in environmental matters. We also know that the Times, while giving financial advice to everyone else, is not exactly doing very well.

Well, now we see that the Times is demanding the end to nice, soft toilet paper. Yes, how fitting that the newspaper whose finances are in the crapper now is trying tell the rest of us what we need to use when attending to certain bodily functions.