Coffee Weapon

Heres a great idea. Give all the 8 year old kiddies some steaming hot coffee at school. Start them out young and right coffee drinkers I say..

The Oshkosh (WA) school district is still investigating a case where a student threw a coffee cup at a staff member’s head Monday, sending the school employee to the hospital.

“It happens more frequently than we’d like,” she said. “It’s part of the job, especially when dealing with kids with disabilities. Some kids really don’t know what they are doing.”

According to Oshkosh police, a fourth-grader got upset and threw a coffee cup at a staff member’s head at about noon Monday.

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What haven’t curled up with a good book lately?
Upon learning that this brewed coffee delicacy is produced from beans picked from the excrement of the “Luwak,” a catlike animal common to the region. Author and Scientist Massimo Marcone adventures begins with a request to investigate the mystery shrouding the world’s most expensive, bizarre and also the most coveted brew, Sumatra’s Kopi Luwak coffee.

Marcone explains his penchant for unusual foods in his recent book In Bad Taste: The Science and Adventures Behind Food Delicacies. His discovery that the coffee bean is effectively cleaner after passing through a Luwak’s rectum.
“When I incubated the sub-samples, allowing ample time for bacterial growth, I was shocked to see that the Kopi Luwak beans had one hundred times fewer bacteria than the corresponding control samples.” He also uncovers how progression through a Luwak’s digestive system chemically alters the bean so that it produces a different, richer flavor. Umm yea..A few chapters in and you might just find yourself hankering for a cup of Kopi Luwak joe.

This caught my eye recently:

A crazy combination of events has led me to give up caffeine. Let’s call this Dopey Experiment No. 897.

She may have failed to mention she has a 3 pack a day cigarette habit. Read more about this here.

Denise Snodell: Coffee vs. sleep — the ZZZs have it