Plastic Madness; The Hot New Trend....more

Plastic Madness 

So we went and banned plastic straws and plastic bags in much of California and elsewhere because they are made from fossil fuels and a solitary turtle was once found snorting fentanyl through a plastic straw, or something. In any case, Greta/Gaia was displeased, so plastic products had to go.

Well guess what: the substitutes for plastic products mostly produce higher greenhouse gas emissions than plastic. Not by just a little but by a lot.

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The Hot New Trend Is...Bed-Rotting? 

Of the untold number of Americans who no longer have to leave home to go to work, half sometimes don't even bother to leave their beds. It's called "bed-rotting" and for only the fourth time in my 20-plus years as VodkaPundit, I find myself with nothing to say at first except "I can't even."

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Portuguese Catholic Church announces it will compensate victims of sex abuse  20 victims have asked for compensation so far, according to church officials

Review into alleged historic child sex abuse by monks on Welsh island announced An abbey on a remote Welsh island has commissioned an independent review into alleged historical child sex abuse by monks....Caldey, off the coast of Pembrokeshire in west Wales, home to Cistercian Order monks, has been facing allegations since 2017.

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'Hero' Wyoming teen stabbed to death while protecting girlfriend in mall attack: report  Bobby Maher, 14, reportedly arrived at the mall after his girlfriend called him and said the juvenile suspects were following her.

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Planet Fitness' Pro-Trans Policy Blows Up in Its Face 

Does a naked dude in a women’s locker asking a woman to rub lotion on him and shower with him sound like someone who thinks he’s a woman or someone who is exploiting the gym’s pro-transgender policies to gain access to private women’s spaces? Image