weaktwos

I find myself impressed with Sarah Vowell as I read her book of essays, The Partly Cloudy Patriot. Some of her lines are rather golden, in my opinion. I take these quotes from her essay, "God will Give You Blood to Drink in a Souvenire Shot Glass":

I was enjoying a chocolatey caffe mochawhen it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec Cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention and consumerism served with whipped cream on top. No wonder it costs so much.

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Another reason I'm intrigued with the hanged of Salem, especially the women, is that a number of them aroused suspicion in the first place because they were financially independent, or sharp-tongued, or kept to themselves. In other words, they were killed off for living the same sort of life I live right now, but with longer skirts and fewer cable channels.