The bathtub brouhaha and what it says about us


I THINK my editor was a little hesitant about the topic I chose for my first column. "It's a very contentious issue," he warned.

Oh no, sir. Deciding if a hotdog is a sandwich or not is a contentious issue. There's nothing the matter with a picture of a young politician in an ice tub.

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