Return of the Urinal Fly

Andrew Sullivan takes a choice quote from an L.A. Times article on design to point out something that I misinformed everyone about a few months back: It turns out flies in urinals aren't there to save money on urinal cakes; they're there to diminish splashback and keep the place cleaner.

Of course, if they wanted things really clean, they could just attach a hose or have a huge trough with little glory holes in it to pee into. That's the problem, I guess. The solutions that would really be the cleanest are also the most disgusting to think about.