An acorn

I love Thomas Sowell's personality and arguments, but I rarely like his writing, either in his columns or his books. Nonetheless, he did pull off a nice line the other day, which he set up by asking, Is emptying bed pans in a hospital menial work?

What would happen if bed pans didn't get emptied? Let people stop emptying bed pans for a month and there would be bigger problems than if sociologists stopped working for a year.

LAGuy with an irrelevant aside: I'm reminded of an old joke. A boy is sent to a boarding school. He calls his mother and says he misses the pot that used to be under the bed. She says he always did.