Take A (Coffee) Break

Aha! A new favorite holiday! World Fair Trade Day - the largest coffee break ever! What a beautiful idea - let’s bring all the over caffeinated souls together, get hopped up on caffeine and try to change the world!

Actually, the event looks pretty cool and meaningful (unlike most of the things I write about):

World Fair Trade Day

Saturday, May 10, 2008
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Cafe Collage
1346 T Street, NW, Washington, DC

Fair Trade Certified™ coffee and other samples of fairly-traded products will be distributed, including Fair Trade Certified™ sugar and chocolate, provided by Alter Eco USA, Fair Trade Certified™ Numi Teas, and Sencha Natural’s Green Tea Mints and Green Tea Bars, with Fair Trade Certified™ green tea extract and Liz Lovely cookies and snacks with Fair Trade Certified™ ingredients. A special screening of the film “Black Gold,” a documentary about global coffee trade, will be played throughout the afternoon.

A Deliquent’s Bill Of Rights

LiveScience just created a bill of rights for delinquents in their Top 10 Bad Things That are Good For You. The following is a hypothetical narrative based on the list, going from 10 to 1.

One Saturday afternoon,  a LiveScience writer drank too much beer, got angry and decided to have some coffee to sober up. But then someone popped him some LSD because they thought he was an alcoholic, which made him want to go wander around in the sunlight where he could see magical things. He stumbled upon a pile of maggots chomping on a dead rabbit in a patch of marijuana. So inspired by the natural elements, he went back home, smoked a doobie and remembered that he needed to get his daily dose of antioxidants, so he opened a bottle of red wine. But, since the wine didn’t resolve the munchies, he downed a pile of dark chocolate, which made him really horny and so he called up his girlfriend to have sex.

The End