Comments on: PROFESSORS ON COKE, REDUX http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/professors_on_coke_redux/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:50:44 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Nick http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/professors_on_coke_redux/comment-page-1/#comment-11581 Nick Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 /?p=4862#comment-11581 James, I recommend reading this intriguing piece by Malcolm Gladwell: http://www.gladwell.com/2001/2001_07_30_a_java.htm He postulates that caffeine made the modern world. James, I recommend reading this intriguing piece by Malcolm Gladwell:

http://www.gladwell.com/2001/2001_07_30_a_java.htm

He postulates that caffeine made the modern world.

]]> By: Paul http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/professors_on_coke_redux/comment-page-1/#comment-11582 Paul Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 /?p=4862#comment-11582 It's getting deep... and I don't mean the snow. It's getting deep... and I don't mean the snow.

]]> By: JW http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/professors_on_coke_redux/comment-page-1/#comment-11583 JW Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 /?p=4862#comment-11583 Humph. I'll agree with the basic premise that caffeine is essential to the academic life in that faculty meetings and assorted convocations on excruciatingly academic-minutia topics would put anybody to sleep--even seriously committed academics like yourselves. But you have no IDEA how dependent the economy is on working moms having unfettered access to their caffiene of choice. I'm a freelance writer, and between getting up at 6 a.m. to dress the kids for school and going to bed at 10:30 p.m. after writing my assignment for the day, I can cut through 36 ounces of Dr. Pepper or Coke easily while checking email, researching on the web, cooking dinner, trafficing the kids to church and activities, cleaning house, supervising homework, and doing laundry. Imagine how much caffiene women who also commute, put in 40 hours and overtime, and volunteer with every school group imaginable need. If it were ruled a controlled substance, the US economy would tank within months. :) --- Humph. I'll agree with the basic premise that caffeine is essential to the academic life in that faculty meetings and assorted convocations on excruciatingly academic-minutia topics would put anybody to sleep--even seriously committed academics like yourselves.

But you have no IDEA how dependent the economy is on working moms having unfettered access to their caffiene of choice. I'm a freelance writer, and between getting up at 6 a.m. to dress the kids for school and going to bed at 10:30 p.m. after writing my assignment for the day, I can cut through 36 ounces of Dr. Pepper or Coke easily while checking email, researching on the web, cooking dinner, trafficing the kids to church and activities, cleaning house, supervising homework, and doing laundry. Imagine how much caffiene women who also commute, put in 40 hours and overtime, and volunteer with every school group imaginable need. If it were ruled a controlled substance, the US economy would tank within months. :)

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