Message In A Bottle
January, 1987
As recently as the early Sixties, when a few of us kooks were crusading for Goldwater, we liked to say that the Government had gotten too big and too intrusive, and we cited as evidence the fact that the Bureau of the Census was asking people how many bathrooms they had in their homes. Of course, when they asked, you had to tell them. If you didn't, you could go to jail. We even had a hero in W. S. Rickenbacker, who stood up to the Census bureau, said it was none of its damned business how many...
