STARBUCKS UNVEILS HOLIDAY CUP

Last year, Starbucks started using plain red cups during the Christmas holidays. These were seen by some as a war on Christmas, as they were missing the Christmas trees, snowflakes, ornaments, etc. of the 2014 cup and many previous years. To hopefully avoid another season of bad publicity, yesterday (Tuesday) Starbucks unveiled a new green-colored cup for the holidays. The design on the new cup is a “mosaic of more than a hundred people drawn in one continuous stroke.” Drawn by artist Shogo Ota, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz says, “The green cup and the design represent the connections Starbucks has as a community with its employees and customers. During a divisive time in our country, Starbucks wanted to create a symbol of unity as a reminder of our shared values, and the need to be good to each other.”
* Yeah, yeah, that’s great. Does it make my coffee any cheaper?
* Starbucks’ Holiday Cups. Here just in time to heal America.
* Shared values? I thought it was our diametrically opposed values that make us divisive.
* At least they didn’t make the cups red and blue.
* Green cups. The color of money.
* Red cups as a War on Christmas? How about a War on Beer Drinkers?
* That could have caused a red cup shortage in every frat house in America.
* One continuous stroke, huh? Sounds like what this presidential campaign has given me.
* Uh oh, now Green Peace says the green colored cups are an insult to the environment.
* Let’s face it: No matter what we do these days, it’s going to tick somebody off.