The Ice Bucket Challenge for Straws
Howard Rotter Diving in the Philippines In 2014 while my good friend, Howard, was wasting away from the progressive...
Category: Politics
Plastic for the Poor
Plastic has made poor peoples lives better. It has given them access to containers for liquid that they previously...
Where Did the Turtle get the Plastic Straw?
I Googled "Straws and Pollution" and on the first page of results there were a lot of ads and links that said roughly...
Straw Math
This is not a simple story with a shockingly memorable video. It is a collection of facts. I want to persuade you to...
Straws…finally
I wrote a blog post in February of 2008 warning that Plastic Straws were an Environmental Abomination....
Plato on Participation
"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your...
Porn Stars
We are in a strange territory when beauty-pageant swimsuit competitions are evil relics of toxic masculinity — but...
Ending Suicide Bombing
"The only way we have left to control suicide-terrorists would be precisely to convince them that blowing themselves up...
Caring vs Knowing
"No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care." Teddy...
The Most Important Election of Our Lifetimes
"We’re on, what, the eighth or ninth consecutive “most important election of our lifetimes”? In the past decades,...
