Letters to the Editor
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Let them drink coffee...
This country has a criminal government which, if there's any justice in this world, will end up being prosecuted en masse for war crimes. We have torn up two sovereign nations in our search for terrorists who quite obviously are smarter than we are, and organizationally our superiors. To keep up with the rest of the planet, most of which is gunning for us, we need all the caffeine we can get. Myself, I love caffeine. Bring it on. And if we're going to have a ridiculous school system that keeps teenagers busier than lawyers used to be, those teens are entitled to their stimulants too. I used to have to make carefully-timed sprints to the teachers' lounge to get Cokes from the machine there in order to torque myself up for the hours of unspeakable numbing boredom that high school was and, presumably, still is. While there was a certain diversion in this daily challenge, I see no reason to make it inconvenient for anyone of any age to fulfill a reasonable need and support commerce at the same time.
Seriously, this will be like my responses to other articles by folks obsessing about what other people eat and drink: get over it. In view of the real conflagrations going on as you wrote and as I write, the significance of other people's menu choices is less than zero, and such choices are none of your business to boot. So, eat/drink somewhere else/something else if you object to Starbucks and its coffee, and leave it and its customers in peace. Their habits or addictions are their own problem/business, nothing you need to worry about - how many times, after all, has someone shoved the business end of a .45 into the back of your neck because he needed cash to buy coffee?
Review a book, research a real subject, get a life. Grrr, this kind of intellectual running-in-place irritates the hell out of me. I need to keep my resolution to stop reading it. Good night, all.