Fill in the Blank: Morris Dees, [blank], Moby...

Nick Gillespie | November 8, 2005

The answer?

Virginia Postrel, former editor of Reason and author of two of the best books written in the past decade (The Substance of Style and The Future and Its Enemies).

So what is she doing between a suspiciously endowed hate-group fighter and a musically inclined unabashed John Kerry whore?

She's one of the people featured on Starbucks "The Way I See It" cupvertising (for lack of a better term). As I was grabbing a cup of joe, I looked down and read the following quote:

The Way I See It #55

The most successful innovations are the ones that we stop noticing almost immediately. We often don't appreciate the things we'd least like to give up.

-- Virginia Postrel
Author of The Substance of Style and a columnist for The New York Times.

More here.

And visit Virginia's great blog here.

Comments

|11.8.05 @ 4:20PM|#

That's it! I was considering going to the Starbucks in one of the buildings adjoining my workplace to get a cup of specialty coffee today, but now you've completely convinced me to. I actually have a wonderfully valid excuse for treating myself to their coffee today. I hope I get the Virginia Postrel cup, and not the shitty Moby one!

|11.8.05 @ 4:27PM|#

Or the Jonah Goldberg one.

Regular Starbucks cup = 1.5 smug points.
Starbucks cup with Jonah Goldberg quote = 2.25 smug points.

|11.8.05 @ 4:40PM|#

smug points

Very funny.

|11.8.05 @ 4:48PM|#

So, who's going to be the first to insist that the person behind the counter dig through all the cups until #55 shows up?

|11.8.05 @ 4:49PM|#

So, who's going to be the first to insist that the person behind the counter dig through all the cups until #55 shows up?

You asked that question too late.

What? Don't look at me like that.

|11.8.05 @ 4:51PM|#

Ok, I was just kidding.

I actually didn't get a cup with the "The Way I See It" ad campaign on it. I got a clear, plastic cup with the plain ol' logo.

This particular franchise didn't offer the hot drink that I was coveting. So I got an iced drink instead.

Suggestability, what?

|11.8.05 @ 4:57PM|#

I love those "The Way I See It" things. Those and Snapple's "'Real' Facts."

|11.8.05 @ 4:57PM|#

Or the Jonah Goldberg one.

Ick, no! I keep geeting that one without fail each time I've gone to Starbucks in the last couple of months. Jonah can take his snide, fascist ramblings and shove them up his coffee grinder!

|11.8.05 @ 5:07PM|#

"and author of two of the best books written in the past decade (The Substance of Style and The Future and Its Enemies)."

two of the best written books of the past decade? funny haha. I like her work generally but 'best written books' stuff is beyond the pale.

|11.8.05 @ 5:08PM|#

Goldberg's not a fascist; he's just a conservative.

He is certainly a dick concerning cats and libertarians, though.

theOneState|11.8.05 @ 5:11PM|#

suspiciously endowed hate-group fighter

That had so much promise, I clicked on it. How utterly disappointing.

|11.8.05 @ 5:20PM|#

Not that it's relevant to anything, but Virginia Postrel seems to be getting hotter. She was cute in her Reason days, but...well, dayum!!

|11.8.05 @ 5:25PM|#

Ick, no! I keep geeting that one without fail each time I've gone to Starbucks in the last couple of months. Jonah can take his snide, fascist ramblings and shove them up his coffee grinder!

Akira, mine seem to alternate between the Goldberg one, and the one from some guy who goes on at great length about how apes have the same society and rights as men, or somesuch.

I've lately taken to thinking about typing up my own damn pearls of wisdom, printing them out on stickers, and slapping them onto Starbucks cups.

|11.8.05 @ 5:25PM|#

"suspiciously endowed hate-group fighter"

"That had so much promise, I clicked on it. How utterly disappointing."

For some reason, it made me think of Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman.

|11.8.05 @ 5:26PM|#

I like her work generally but 'best written books' stuff is beyond the pale.

There is a difference between "best books written" and "best written books".


Smacky, you should have gotten the maple macchiato. It's like a glass of hot Mrs. Butterworth. That sounds dirtier than I meant it.

|11.8.05 @ 5:29PM|#

Starbucks?

Ugh! Their coffee tastes like they threw diesel on it and lit it on fire rather than roasting it.

|11.8.05 @ 6:01PM|#

Postrel is wrong, wrong, wrong:

2 examples: I miss the hell out of MTV's Friday Night Video fights (5th-6th grade), and 8 tracks. (2nd-4th grade)

|11.8.05 @ 6:02PM|#

We need H&R commenter coffee cup tags to go with the tee shirts.

Some could even be good for the kids:

"Read books so you don't embarrass yourself further."

|11.8.05 @ 6:04PM|#

Maybe a "Cup O' joe" that wakes you up with shocking partisanship:

"Every racist I've ever met is a Republican."

|11.8.05 @ 6:37PM|#

fucking coffee snobs

|11.8.05 @ 7:28PM|#

This reminds me of Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman.

|11.8.05 @ 7:41PM|#

It's like a glass of hot Mrs. Butterworth. That sounds dirtier than I meant it.

I'd hit it...

|11.8.05 @ 8:01PM|#

Maybe a "Cup O' joe" that wakes you up with shocking partisanship:

"Every racist I've ever met is a Republican."


Very nice.

|11.8.05 @ 9:17PM|#

Dedicated,
Check out Batdorf & Bronson (online) and their Dancing Goats blend.

Good teas,too.

Sandy|11.8.05 @ 11:59PM|#

"Every racist I've ever met is a Republican."

You obviously haven't met many southern Democrats.

The Wine Commonsewer|11.9.05 @ 12:32AM|#

That is waaaaay cool....VP is the Cat's PJ's.

Gimme a Venti of Sumatra in a #55, leave a little room for cream, pleeeeze.

Happy Jack, Lynda Carter never, ever looked that good, not even in her dreams. Interesting blog, wonder if Piekoff has sent a Cease & Desist letter yet.

every racist.....

Never met my grandfather neither (the mean old white man). He hated Republicans worse than spics, jews, bohunks, wops, indians, micks, jew-wops (New Yorkers), Canadians, negras, and assorted other second class humanoids.

America has long forgotten who the real party of racism was.

|11.9.05 @ 7:57AM|#

America has long forgotten who the real party of racism was.

The Know Nothings?

:)

Viking Moose|11.9.05 @ 10:59AM|#

Hey Eurotrash:

at least you could spell Julius MEINL properly.

Now, everybody else - all together now:
[all in good fun]
"educate yourself about austrian coffee before you embarass yourself any further"

(heiter ohne zu verletzen)
[/all in good fun]

|11.9.05 @ 7:05PM|#

Not that it's relevant to anything, but Virginia Postrel seems to be getting hotter. She was cute in her Reason days, but...well, dayum!!

The ultimate success of our side is assured...for we have the hot chicks on our side, and you can't lose that way.