Freeing My Inner Genius

I never imagined the Senate without Ted Kennedy. Until about 15 months ago, I never even imagined him to be a mortal man. The Lion of the Senate, he was politically present for so much of our late 20th century history. I happily included a quote from him in my paper on the Sino-American rapprochement, [...]

That’s us, at a Starbucks in Playa del Carmen, Mexico

Hey fellow Starbucks-aholics, would you go to a stealth Starbucks? Apparently, Starbucks is trying to compete on the local level by opening stores with more localized names.  The argument is, and it is a valid one, that many people prefer small, local, non-chain coffee shops [...]