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American political process as drinks.

You have basically orange juice and pop. A vaguely okay beverage which gives you some useful vitamins, even if this particular variety has been reconstituted and frozen and reconstituted again until it's a pretty mild version of this thing, freshly-squeezed orange juice. Versus a remarkably unhealthy drink which can seem fairly good especially if/because it's been marketed at you pretty constantly.

But what if you don't want either? What if what you really need is iron, or if you have a UTI, and cranberry juice would be really good about now?

dubious taste

So I'm at Peets drawing during my lunch break. Unlike Starbucks Peets plays classical - or classical styled - music over their PA.

The Deutschlandlied turns out to be by Franz Haydn, and dates from 1797, and apparently someone decided that it'd be soothing to have performed by a string quartet and on the PA. You know. Germany's national anthem (since 1922). The official title has never actually been Deutschland Über Alles.

Obviously my associations are not soothing string quartet. However, thanks mostly to Monty Python, I can't hear the darn thing without my mind filling in John Cleese ranting in pseudo-German (only slightly more coherent and less funny than what little I've seen of Triumph of the Will, possibly the only movie to feature horrifying historical implications while simultaneously being incredibly boring). So I'm listening to this and cracking up.