Starbuck was the first mate on the Pequod, wasn't he? As I recall from high school literature class, or maybe the Cliff Notes version of Moby Dick, the whaler sank in the end. Maybe the founders of the coffee chain will rue the day they asked for all that bad karma.
We'll never see that time again when an eight-ounce coffee drink cost more than a gallon of gas.
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CHAN LOWE has been the Sun Sentinel’s first and only editorial cartoonist for the past twenty-six years. Before that, he worked as cartoonist and writer for the Oklahoma City Times and the Shawnee (OK) News-Star.
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