Philosophy, politics, and religion from behind the bar.

We are nothing but consuming units for a death cult of moneyed interests. And they will use every trick in the book to make sure we are not paying attention. Like playing on our emotions to make us think recycling is going to be the answer to our waste problems, by making  a cute little plastic bottle have dreams of seeing the ocean as a recycled bench (also playing on our innate credulity about the after-life). Anthropomorphizing a plastic bottle in the commercial isn't about recycling. It's about the plastic industry telling us it's okay to consume more plastics. Ironic that they would use a bench, looking at the sea, since that's where all of the plastic waste ends up. Just because they sell us billions of tons of worthless plasticized crap every year, it's not their fault that we don't recycle . Probably the most offensive ad on TV. https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=how+much+of+our+plastic+is+recycled%3F&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs...

I'm tired of hearing about the VP's or Anne Coulter's, or any fascist from the "alt-right", or some religious bigot's "free speech" rights being threatened by protesters. Their free speech is not the one under attack Since Reagan and the religious right, and long before, we have heard EVERYTHING they could possibly have to  say. They have owned the airwaves, the megaphones, the money, the soap-boxes, the pulpits, the political power, and the zeitgeist for so long that the left barely has any influence at all. The "left", in fact, isn't even "left" anymore. . Any time those fascists and corporatists can be shouted out of hearing, or scared away by protesters, is an example of free speech being practiced in it's finest glory.  The apoplexy is misplaced.