Fair Trade Coffee in Biodegradable Cups

I just flew in from San Diego...and boy, are my arms tired! (ba-dum-chhhh...)

Anyway, there I was in the San Diego Zoo, and there I was waiting in line for a nice cold beverage, and there I was noticing a nice sign on the snack bar wall, and here is a nice picture of the nice sign:



Isn't that wonderful!!! Yes, I know that is a question and I know that I used exclamation points instead of question marks. But that is because I meant it not as a question, but as an exclamation. Got it? (please don't forget this point...you will need to refer back to it later...)

It was also wonderful that the snack bar had nice tables for people to sit at while they enjoyed a nice hot Fair Trade Coffee in Biodegradable Cups.

While I was sitting there however, I noticed something: no one was drinking any of the Fair Trade Coffee in Biodegradable Cups. Of course! It was two o'clock in the afternoon on a sunny day in southern California! So it would only make sense that people would not make coffee their beverage of choice, even if it was Fair Trade Coffee in Biodegradable Cups. Instead, most people elected the cold beverages, which made for scenes such as this one:




Notice that there are no biodegradable cups in this scene. The cold beverages were served in nice, big, juicy, 100% plastic cups made in the good ol' USA, brought in all the way from West Virginia by tractor trailers burning only the finest refined fossil fuel.

But wait! That's not all! If you happened to have a hankerin' for something neat to eat, you could get that here as well! Yes, that's right! Served in a giant matching plastic bucket! Of course, all these plastics are recyclable, but guess what! (there it is again! Did you remember?)

There were no recycling bins any where near this area! Fortunately, there were plenty of garbage cans strategically placed at the exit areas of the snack bar for your disposing pleasure!

Well, don't feel too bad. We can all take comfort in the fact that if anyone did actually buy Fair Trade Coffee in Biodegradable Cups that it came from a place where the natives won't be growing restless because they are getting screwed out of a fair wage for their labor. And, the cup that comes with the coffee will degrade naturally once the garbage truck, burning only the finest refined fossil fuel, dumps it in the landfill.

News About News That Is About Nothing

So the Batman movie is taking the world by storm. Speculation has it that part of the reason it has been so successful at the box office is because the Joker bit the dust. Or at least the actor who portrayed him did. Heath Ledger. Or I should say the late or ex-Heath Ledger.

As if the sudden death of a young movie star by a drug overdose isn't enough news, someone in the media had to come up with the idea that the dark nature of his role as the Joker strongly contributed to his demise. Perhaps it was his inability to get out of his character when the camera stopped rolling that promoted his despondence and use of drugs.

OK. Fine. If this was true, then maybe it would be an interesting sidebar. Although it would make me a bit nervous about actors in general. What if the next "Godfather" can't get "out of character" and starts having media people whacked whenever he thinks that they have "disrespected" him, like maybe by accusing him of not being able to get out of character? Could be a problem. On the other hand, it could be a blessing...

At any rate, it doesn't really matter because this whole idea of this actor turning to drugs because his role as the Joker was just way too much for his psyche to handle was made up. It wasn't true. This isn't what happened. Big surprise there, huh?

I know all of this because my wife was watching this show where they were interviewing other actors in the movie about the former Mr. Ledger. They all stated that the idea that his demise was caused by the Joker himself was not true, not possible, crazy, unfounded, etc, etc.

So basically here it is: a show interviewing people about something that was made up asking them if it was true and all of them saying it was made up. The media created the rumor and then had a tv show to dispel the rumor that they made up. Everyone on the show knew the media made it up, but they came on the media's show to tell the world that the media generated rumor was made up.

And I thought that "Seinfeld" was the show that was supposed to be about "nothing".

Seinfeld has nothing on the news.