Maybe We Need To Keep The Trapdoors ...

for the Demo donkey when it dies. Via Rantburg comes some Baghdad insights:

Some learning will need to take place among the population. The old Iraqi sewage system used large trap doors instead of manholes. When one Iraqi saw a new US-sized manhole, he protested. They are too small. How, he wondered, would he fit his donkey down them when it died? (That tells you something about the state of the sewer system in Baghdad under Saddam.)

A quick and worthwhile read. Go. Now.