Santa Cruz perks up for caffeine alert

Santa Cruz Sentinel ^ | By NANCY PASTERNACK

[RonF]

Highly addictive means that you get addicted to it quickly and easily, not that it's a hard addiction to shake. Heroin and nicotine are also highly addictive, but they are a lot harder to detoxify.

[Marine Inspector]

In Santa Cruz there plenty of other accepted ones, actually.

And they are home grown too.

[6ppc]

So many potential California/Starbucks jokes...so little time! 8^)

[clearsight]

Sugar also has physiological and psychological effects. Everything you eat will affect you in both areas in one way or another. GET RID OF THE HEALTH POLICE.They are nothing but another extension of the left wacko socialist agenda.

[free_european]

two words: dirty hippies

[Bob]

I was going to comment on the "trying to be in my Zen place" comment, but got sidetracked.

Driving highway 17 from Silicon Valley to the People's Republic of Santa Cruz is an especially bad place to do it as well.

[SIDENET]

Good point. I've been there and remember how flaky it was.

[tertiary01]

trying to be in my Zen place

I agree, I don't think that caffeine is her biggest addiction.

[Marine Inspector]

Driving highway 17 from Silicon Valley to the People's Republic of Santa Cruz is an especially bad place to do it as well.

Agreed.

[Blue Champagne]

Oh joy - a new group to demonize! Wait for ads warning of the dangers of 'second-hand coffee aroma.' Sheesh.

[thecabal]

Wouldn't they be much happier if they just killed us all?

Then who would they be able to micro-manage?

[tertiary01]

remember how flaky it was.

But they sure used to have great red snapper in that restaurant at the end of the pier!!

[theDentist]

Velzy swore off the strong stuff 13 years ago after flipping someone the proverbial bird during her commute home from Silicon Valley.

How can anyone drive without flipping the bird?

[Lazamataz]

Then who would they be able to micro-manage?

They could dictate the rate of decomposition in all the corpses.

And they could arrange the bodies in interesting ways.

[Euro-American Scum]

For Santa Cruz resident Midjann Velzy, the combination of drinking coffee and driving a car became "a potential road-rage situation."

The ACLU blames George W. Bush. Clinton blames the NRA.

[GOP_1900AD]

I've got a simple answer for them. Go to the nearest Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Find others who don't drink coffee and enjoy the company. And leave the rest of us alone. [No offense to LDS - for you it is a choice ... ]

[freebilly]

For those in need of a coffee enema here is some info--

http://www.ineedcoffee.com/01/01/enema/

[caseinpoint]

Well, there are some places where the bird might catch the slug.

[freebilly]

I've got a simple answer for them. Go to the nearest Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Find others who don't drink coffee and enjoy the company. And leave the rest of us alone. [No offense to LDS - for you it is a choice ... ]

A few months back my wife and I walked about 3 miles through downtown Salt Lake City looking for coffee. We finally had to settle for some bad coffee from a Cinnabon at a food court attached to the Marriott....