PS to Nobel Prize in Chemistry

One of the aforementioned prize-winning chemists has been messing around with palladium’s catalytic properties since the 1960’s. Back then he used palladium to more quickly link a ring of carbon atoms to a short piece of carbon to produce styrene. You know, styrene, polystyrene, plastic—the messianic material of our generation? Remember sitting around the campfire drinking cocoa, then tossing those Styrofoam cups into the fire? Their shriveling hypnotized us as they melted in the embers. The vaporous stench watered our eyes and singed our lungs.

So, we manufacture the little sponge’s enemy-killer, to fend off the stalker that seeks us as we play and breathe, as we consume our daily minimums in the 2000’s.