Monday, May 29, 2006

If the terrorists really wanted to hurt us, they'd bomb Colombia

I've come to a realization at work, that all American business is based on the work of poor Latin Americans. Not the illegal typs that get smuggled across the border in car trunks and 50 gallon drums of frijoles negros; no, specifically, the kind that grow, pick and process coffee. If it weren't for Juan Valdez and his donkey, no fucking work would get done at all in America.

You can't conduct a business interview without coffee. You can't start a day in some piece of shit cubicle without downing a hot cup of java. Shit, I can't even stay awake in a meeting without adding a little methamphetamine to my daily dose of artificial sleep.

So really, if the terrorists wanted to hurt us, wanted to cripple our economy, they would blow the fuck out of Colombia. Instead of growing opium poppies to make heroin, they would burn down all the coffee farms across the world. If Starbucks couldn't get it's supply of beans to provide the non-fat, no whip mochacino all productivity in the US would come to a dead fucking halt. Or better yet, maybe instead of flying planes into the WTC, they should have flown them into Starbucks. Though I do have to admit, it would take a lot of airplanes to bomb every single street corner in Seattle.

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