At least they'll be polite in their heedless grab for rural water.

Housing crisis! State budget in flames! Education funding slashed! An oblivious, text-obsessed governor! Must be nice to be the Southern Nevada Water Authority, and live in a placid realm of monied abstraction.

Yes, while the rest of are eating cheese sandwiches and wincing with every squeeze of the gas pump, the water authority is rolling in le dough. Check out this week’s Knappster for the full scoop. Why, they’re so cloyed by their vast piles of slutty gold, they’re being forced to entertain themselves by spending it on things like cubicle etiquette consultants and seminars on — there’s no other way to put this, so I’ll snip straight from the consultant’s newsletter — “living in a green building.”

Dunno about you, but our mother always taught us that a blind grab for rural water, endangering countless species and gambling with environmental catastrophe is bad etiquette.