Hmmm. Big surprise, but I have a slightly different slant on this story, although Mary Ann, below, touches on it when she notes that much of the squalor of a job like this is due to the filthy habits of some humans.

Who hasn't gagged at the sight and smell of a wretchedly squalid public restroom - a place so vile and repulsive that we flee in horror, nature's urgencies notwithstanding?

But what really grosses me out about this issue is the fact that there are minimum wage jobs at all at the same time that chief execs of failing companies are making up to several hundred million bucks a year.

And such people are probably the same guys who decide that poor schmoes like Adama toil on amid the filth and misery at the minimum wage.

If the work ethic in this country has suffered, I think we smell one good reason.

It's a Big Stink, and a good part of the 20th centruy was spent dealing with one failed attempt based on a flawed idea to redistribute the wealth, and there's no telling what its extant Asian stepchildren have in store for us in the 21st, so I'm certainly not advocating any further socialist revolutions along Marxist lines. Rather, I would look to a visionary more like, say, R. Buckminster Fuller as a source for blueprints to remake civilization in a more equitable and certainly more functional form.

Nobody is worth 250 million bucks a year, and when a man like Adama provides a service that probably is worth a million bucks, but gets far, far less, we need to consider how many social ills arise from such dramatic inequities, and how skewed our values have become.

Everybody should have a chance to clean toilets for awhile. Perhaps that might remind people that shared resources should be treated with respect and care, and how much we all depend on people like Adama doing the dirty work.

Sharing is a basic human trait we all would do well to remember: Think about the next guy, get out of the way, leave things the way you found them...

Hard work, fair play; common sense, common courtesy.

Simple values. It should be so easy...

Someday, maybe.

sp

ps. I'm almost pretty sure I was in the right thread previously.