"They both reached for the gun, the gun, the gun."

"Four legs good, two legs bad."

"500 million straws a day."

Plastic straws are the latest boogeyman in the greener-than-thou religious crusades.

"Guns don't kill people, people kill people."

"Straws don't suck, people suck."

A Singapore study showed that it takes multiple times the resources to make one paper cup than one plastic cup. Likewise, use one paper straw, according to this video, and it's like using eight plastic straws. (Assuming price is reflective of resource consumption.)

A bigger question is, Why is big media always coming up with issues to curtail personal freedoms? Remember when we were told to use plastic cutting boards instead of wood, because it would save the rainforests? They used to guilt is into using plastic. If you're old enough, you'll remember that.

Now they're trying to guilt is into not using plastic.

There's a bigger, unspoken agenda here. It could be as simple as selling eyeballs for advertiser dollars, it could be as insidious as eroding individual rights. Death by a thousand ludicrous little lethal cuts, so to speak.