I was recently reading an article entitle "Coffee with Steam" on the website of the St. Petersburg Times. I was thrilled to discover that this article contains not one, but two ridiculous ideas!
The first is the core text of the article: people (read: Americans) are complaining because Starbucks coffee cups have quotations from "liberals" printed on them. Leaving aside the dicey definition of "liberal" in the article, this strikes me as flat out idiotic. A coffee house run by liberals??? The scandal!
Furthermore, to all of the conservatives out there who are going to end up Googling this and emailing me, all I can say is this: Starbucks is a private corporation. Isn't one of your core values that a company in the US can do whatever it wants to make a profit?
Anyway, on to my second charming discovery. Click on the "Reuse or republish this article" link above the text of the article. At first, I thought this was a clever idea --- buy the rights to reuse the article in a book or commercial brochure. Then I saw the option for "email this article." I punched in 1 email and asked for a quote... $1.00. That's $1 per email, whereas I could have chopped it out of yesterday's newspaper for free.
To add hilarity to this situation, there's an "Email this article" link that lets you do it for free on the same page. Glad to see that the left hand has a clue what the right is doing over at the St. Petersburg Times.
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