As they used to say where I grew up in Brooklyn, “You can’t
make this sh*&# up.” And any pun you may detect here is purely a natural
product (or perhaps a natural byproduct) of the subject matter.
According to a news story conscientiously and intrepidly
squeezed out by the Associated Press and dutifully picked up by USA Today and
other fine news journals, they've got a new kind of coffee in Thailand. It’s made by feeding coffee beans to
elephants, then retrieving the same beans from their dung when the elephants
finish, uh, processing the stuff.
The coffee goes for fifty bucks a cup. That’s $50. Fifty. Dollars.
Now, as you know, Republicans have long been represented by
symbols of elephants. And given the giddy and out-of-control behavior of
certain legislators recently, most especially as it pertains to raising taxes
on the formidably rich, I begin to wonder which elephants the Thais have been
using to process their beans.
Anyway, the notion of having something that was once
commonplace, but that only the well-off can afford these days, like a job, or a
house, or a steak dinner, or now a cup of coffee, sounds very Republican to me.
But if I never taste it, I’m sure I won’t miss that $50
coffee. I’ve already taken enough crap from Republicans to last a lifetime.
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