The War on Styrofoam

A few years prior to my birth, my father and his generation fought and died in Europe and Asia to save the world from Hitler and protect our nation.  A century earlier, Americans battled to save the Union and ultimately end slavery.

Today?  We find our leaders fighting the good fight against salt, 100 watt incandescent light bulbs, styrofoam cups and plastic bags.

Over a decade after thousands of New Yorkers were murdered by Muslim terrorists, the city's mayor is declaring victory in the War on Salt. Next up he plans to wage a spring offensive on Styrofoam cups. After that, who knows?

We live in surreal times. In the Middle Ages, cats and rats were put on trial. In this modern age, we began by waging wars on poverty and drugs, both of which we lost, and have now retreated to fighting wars on food ingredients, the bags we carry them in and the containers out of which we eat and drink them.

There's no telling what surreal enemy our wise and brilliant leaders will declare war on next. Shoes? Pepper? Umbrellas? Mathematics? The color blue?

 

Please read the whole thing.  Then - shake your head and wonder what has happened to our once great nation.

Comments

[J. Reed Anderson]

Again, something else the media can't reason: "Nation building at home means bringing the war home. Nation building is something that we usually inflict on our worst enemies in the hopes of teaching them a better way to live. It means wrecking the United States and then rebuilding it in the way that our conquerors see fit. All those little wars aren't really being fought against salt, sugar, plastic bags and a thousand other tiny inanimate enemies. They are being fought against you."

Good and entertaining article, Peg.