Billion Dollars

Mike Bloomberg spent a supposed billion dollars on his failed presidential campaign bid. This seems like a colossal waste of money. For instance, he could have instead bought:

- 20 billion pieces of Double Bubble gum

 - 20,000 Tesla Model 3 Long Range AWDs

 - 50 billion plastic straws

- 11.2 miles of the high-speed coastal rail link between L.A. and San Francisco

- 4 thousand tickets on the Virgin Galactica Spaceship Two suborbital flight

- 5 delegates to the Democrat nominating convention from American Samoa

Strife

There seems an epidemic of unrest around the world. The globe is aflame with strife against tyrannical regimes. Demonstrations and riots of all types are breaking out all over. To sample these venues, click on the hyperlinks below:

Hong Kong— Fox News Story

Venezuela — CNN Story

London — The Irish Times Story

Barcelona — US News Story

Ecuador — KIVITV Story

Lebanon — AlArabiya Story

Chile — The Guardian Story

The reason for all these altercations? Perhaps plastic straws or climate change?

Are We Nuts? (Updated)

From daily timewaster blog

The vast majority of plastic straw disposal in the U.S. is in landfills ...

Afterward: Using these numbers, this works out to be the entire US putting about 16 pounds of plastic straws into the ocean every year ... maybe one straw for every hundred thousand Americans. 

Which Is Worse?

San Francisco Poop Map

A few million  plastic straws in a dirt-covered San Bruno landfill or a ton of human feces and used hypodermic needles littering the streets of San Francisco?

Whew!

From Powerline blog

The New Environmentalists

Los Angeles sprawling tent city

Living among recycled drug needles and pet vermin, composting garbage and human feces in the gutter ... but NO plastic straws!