hatred towards low-flush toilets. The conservative author and would-be comedian is full of hatred towards lots of things, but Gelf can't help but wonder why she is single-mindedly intent on protecting the seven-gallon toilet flush. This first came to our attention when reading a recent Baltimore Sun interview in which Coulter said, "My ideal America would have no liberals and 7-gallon flush toilets in every bathroom." (Presumably, the liberals could simply be flushed down the toilet.) But this is not just a throw-away line for Coulter.

In her latest book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism in America, Coulter expands on this theme. Here's an excerpt of an excerpt that ran on AOL:

Instead of the organic method of living in your own excrement, most people prefer the inorganic method of flushing it away from themselves. Consequently, the federal government has done the next best thing for the official state religion, which is to make it a felony to replace a 1.3-gallon toilet bowl with an old-fashioned 7-gallon toilet bowl—or as we call it, "a working toilet."

This is no new obsession. In 2003, Coulter told Salon:

I've been staying in a modern building in New York …
everything that is unpleasant in life has been brought to us by liberals. One of them is the fact that we can only have two tablespoons of water in our toilet bowls because of some idiotic conservation of water. It's wacky enough for liberals to think about global warming, but that we would run out of natural resources? It rains. The water doesn't go away. Because of liberal government bureaucrats, they decided that we can only have two tablespoons of water in the toilet. You throw half a tissue in the toilet and you have to flush it 16 times.

The blog The Talent Show commented, "16 times?! What the hell is this woman eating??"

Related on the Web

Last year, Wired ran a piece about the future of toilet technology, and earlier this year a Slate editorial explained why the auto-flush toilet truly sucks.