Today while watching the kid, I took in a lot of daytime television, ranging from court shows to I love Lucy, with a little Maury thrown in for good measure. If there’s one thing I’ve gained from the experience, it’s utter disgust. What is happening to this country? What is wrong with people? How can we sit idly by while we our society crumbles and descends into the depths of gluttony and vainglory? I’m referring of course, to Cottonelle’s new toilet paper protectors.

What kind of sick, twisted mind comes up with the need to not only display your extra toilet paper, but to do so in a colorful, eye grabbing art deco tube? Just throw it under the sink like the rest of us. Isn’t this a little extravagant, given our current national employment woes, escalating gas prices and rampant Kardashian overpopulation? Isn’t it irresponsible on Cotonelle’s part to create guilt and shame out of something so incredibly stupid when people are starving in the streets? This is what we should spend money on?! Do we now need to worry about our toilet paper’s fashion sense? It’s clear that the ad wizards who came up with this one are no different than the body part their product cleans.

Yes, I’ve written about toilet paper before and am no less appalled this time around.