“Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolately caffe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World.
“From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle’s Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.”
Sarah Vowell, 41 today
Two more (although I could go on forever):
“Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.”
Assassination Vacation
“Buffy’s high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn’t?”
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Ha ha, I’ve always thought Starbucks was sort of evil. Too bad it tastes so darn good.