Yesterday's Weirdness, Tomorrow's Reason Why

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Originally uploaded by BubbaTyrone.

"The Edge. . .There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others--the living--are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later."

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Hells Angels 1967

Soylent Bean is Starbucks!

Riot police were called in to protect Starbucks locations throughout midtown Manhattan during the Republican National Convention, for fear that protesters would associate big corporate greed and no-ethics-having Starbucks with the party that just doesn't care. Faced with such an image, one has to ask who paid for all these overtime cops to stand two ranks deep around one company's franchises all week, while nobody appeared to protect Dunkin' Donuts.