{"id":434505,"date":"2010-03-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655103.post-6467644652089116499"},"modified":"2010-03-16T10:14:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T14:14:54","slug":"this-guy-wrote-for-sesame-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/434505","title":{"rendered":"This Guy Wrote for Sesame Street?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5449234214366524850\"<\/a>There is an OpEd in yesterday’s Taunton Daily Gazette<\/a> (which I gather from their advertisers is somewhere in Massachusetts) that left me a tad befuddled… It’s about the ongoing Starbucks-unconcealed weapon controversy<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The writer, Lloyd Garver, seems to have his stereotypes muddled and the result is a disjointed and confusing pontification… <\/p>\n

He begins by stating that Starbucks is a “symbol of yuppies and carefree consumerism” and a place where “the smallest cup of coffee is called a \u201cTall.\u201d Depending on what you order, you can easily spend two or three bucks for a cup.” <\/p>\n

But then says that those things make it a “place with the kinds of products mocked by right-wing opponents of vegetarians, elitism and free-range chicken potpies.” <\/p>\n

So, “carefree consumerism” is a left-wing trait? Paying $4 a coffee is a hippie prerogative to be mocked by the GOP? I mean, if we’re trading in stereotypes here, I thought the Grand Ol’ Party was comprised of the rich fat cats? Who better to waste precious dollars on fancy grande half-calf mochachinnos than rich, white old men…right? <\/p>\n

And are the free-range vegans frequenting Starbucks…or roasting their own organic Guatemalan beans and pouring it into their recycled, reusable travel mugs?<\/p>\n

Even from there the article talks about a riff between “traditional NRAers” that believe guns should be concealed and these “gun-toting, Second Amendment-loving customers” that are causing the controversy. So, traditional NRAers aren’t “gun-toting, Second Amendment-loving customers?”<\/p>\n

The commentary was all over the place with inconsistent stereotypes. Am I knit-picking here. I really don’t think so… You can read it<\/a> and decide.<\/p>\n

But for the record Mr. Garver, I am a life-long Libertarian leaning Conservative (or maybe Conservative-leaning Libertarian) and not only do I frequent Starbucks for my grande no-fat vanilla lattes whenever possible, I only make Starbucks’ Verona or Italian Roast at home. I buy free range and I recycle (and compost!) AND I don’t, nor would I ever, own a gun.<\/p>\n

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There is an OpEd in yesterday’s Taunton Daily Gazette (which I gather from their advertisers is somewhere in Massachusetts) that left me a tad befuddled… It’s about the ongoing Starbucks-unconcealed weapon controversy. The writer, Lloyd Garver, seems to have his stereotypes muddled and the result is a disjointed and confusing pontification… He begins by stating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}