The Last Drop

Battles rage on in Iraq. Children are starving in Darfur. Honey bees are being devastated by a mysterious blight in countries around the world. War. Famine. Pestilence. Three of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are upon us. And now the fourth Horseman mounts up: the price for coffee at Starbucks is going up as of tomorrow. As little as 9¢ or as much as 15¢, nobody can say for sure. Do we boycott? I'm so confused. Here we are in the 21st century -- you'd think someone would have come up with a caffeine alternative by now. Maybe Al Gore should make a movie about it: "An Inconvenient Brew"...with room for cream, of course.