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18. Starbucks can't stay out of gun debate, NYT says
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I would also remind the press that Virginia gun owners have honored Starbucks' request to not be in the middle of a gun debate. It's the Brady's that have, as usual, been disrespectful towards Starbucks.
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Starbucks can't stay out of gun debate, NYT says
Posted by Melissa Allison
"Starbucks' combination of a somewhat-pious corporate persona and its
massive growth has made it an apparently irresistible jumping-off
point for all kinds of debates and meditations," Rob Walker wrote in a
New York Times Sunday magazine item on Starbucks and the gun debate.
In what appears to be a gratuitous swipe, the piece says that when
sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined the term "third place," that place
between work and home that Starbucks wants to be, "It seems fair to
say that Starbucks is not what he had in mind." (Maybe the Times is
upset that Starbucks is now carrying The Wall Street Journal in 450
New York stores?)
He also points out that civil rights protests often focused on
restaurants and hotels and says, "Starbucks, in more ways than one, is
shorthand for 'everywhere.'" That makes it a target for both sides in
the gun debate, he wrote.
If that's true, I wonder why open carry advocates hung out first at
Peet's Coffee? OpenCarry.org co-founder Mike Stollenwerk of Virginia
said they switched to Starbucks only after Peet's banned their openly
carried guns.
In fresher political news, French president Nicolas Sarkozy insisted
that "his choice of espresso machine be provided" at a visit to
Columbia University yesterday, the New York Post reports.
Unfortunately, it does not report which machine that is.
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I don't know if its what Mike meant, but the way the article is written it makes it seem as though we all only started going to Starbucks after Peets banned OC. I assume what he was actually saying is that OCers in California switched, because of course, in Virginia, wtf is Peets Coffee? I guess its like one of those In and Outs or Carls Jr. west coast deals
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18. Starbucks can't stay out of gun debate, NYT says
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I would also remind the press that Virginia gun owners have honored Starbucks' request to not be in the middle of a gun debate. It's the Brady's that have, as usual, been disrespectful towards Starbucks.
--
http://tinyurl.com/y8d7som
www.seattletimes.com
Starbucks can't stay out of gun debate, NYT says
Posted by Melissa Allison
"Starbucks' combination of a somewhat-pious corporate persona and its
massive growth has made it an apparently irresistible jumping-off
point for all kinds of debates and meditations," Rob Walker wrote in a
New York Times Sunday magazine item on Starbucks and the gun debate.
In what appears to be a gratuitous swipe, the piece says that when
sociologist Ray Oldenburg coined the term "third place," that place
between work and home that Starbucks wants to be, "It seems fair to
say that Starbucks is not what he had in mind." (Maybe the Times is
upset that Starbucks is now carrying The Wall Street Journal in 450
New York stores?)
He also points out that civil rights protests often focused on
restaurants and hotels and says, "Starbucks, in more ways than one, is
shorthand for 'everywhere.'" That makes it a target for both sides in
the gun debate, he wrote.
If that's true, I wonder why open carry advocates hung out first at
Peet's Coffee? OpenCarry.org co-founder Mike Stollenwerk of Virginia
said they switched to Starbucks only after Peet's banned their openly
carried guns.
In fresher political news, French president Nicolas Sarkozy insisted
that "his choice of espresso machine be provided" at a visit to
Columbia University yesterday, the New York Post reports.
Unfortunately, it does not report which machine that is.
______________
I don't know if its what Mike meant, but the way the article is written it makes it seem as though we all only started going to Starbucks after Peets banned OC. I assume what he was actually saying is that OCers in California switched, because of course, in Virginia, wtf is Peets Coffee? I guess its like one of those In and Outs or Carls Jr. west coast deals
