Enough latte to bathe Cleopatra

That's my favorite line from this article from Slate, about the secret, elusive cappuccino that Starbucks doesn't want you to know about - even though you can get it at any neighborhood Starbucks (or maybe I should say Starbucks neighborhood).

In other coffee-related news, the U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference has gone fair trade, which marks at least one economically responsible and social-justice oriented decision from the Catholic Church. I don't know what distracted them from marginalizing gays and lesbians, denying Communion to Democrats, and barring women from full participation in the Church. Maybe the leadership was sleeping while one of the cool bishops pushed this through. Either way, because I don't hold up many things from the institutional Church, here's at least one thing to be happy about.