Told Ya

I remember when I was 4 years old in 1965, my parents took me to McDonalds for lunch.  I got a milk with my meal, and my mom handed me a plastic straw and instructed me how to use it.  The concept seemed primitive and outrageously reckless to me, but I did as I was told, and I remember thinking at that moment, “Really?  This obviously non-biodegradable device is what we’re going to use to drink milk?  Ok, let’s roll the dice; let’s not think about sea turtles and the coral reef and stuff, but mark my words, someday there will surely be repercussions for our unfathomable transgressions here today.  Someday this insanity will be addressed.  God bless us.”  And sure as shit, that time has come.