I was at my office job the other day, filling up my cup from the tap. An impressionable young intern walked into the kitchen and gasped. “You can drink that?!” she asked.

Oh dear.

Here’s a sensible op-ed in the NY Times on the subject.

It’s basically the polite version of what I would write here, except the ever-succinct Gwyneth Doland beat me to it, in an essay that begins, “Buying bottled water is completely retarded. (Well, not retarded because using retarded in that context is totally gay.)”

I personally am so grateful to live in a country where the tap water doesn’t make your GI tract collapse and your eyes swell up that I drink it every chance I get. We Americans are lucky people, and I don’t think it’s totally gay to say that.