Damn the American consumer who dares to pay for
such frivolities, never mind the fact that we spend more than $ 10 billion a year on bottles of stuff that otherwise flows freely
from our taps — and one of the most popular brands ships its product in
from a tiny island in the Pacific Ocean.
But Michelangelo and others like him have through their labors — sometimes as goads, sometimes as nails, sometimes as scribblers in the sand, helped turn us
from the world's
frivolities and given us time for
such reflection.