Mags has a link-rich essay today on tea vs. coffee in the UK. Backhandedly appropriate for U.S. Thanksgiving maybe. Best wishes to all from here in any case.
BTW isn't there a theory that the British political ferment to which we owe quaint but lovely ideas like free speech and habeas corpus had something to do with urban gathering-places serving coffee instead of beer?
Posted by Martha Bridegam at November 25, 2004 03:45 PMSounds like Habermas' public sphere.
Posted by: Alan Allport at November 27, 2004 02:25 PM