The Java Jive

Is the Coffee Party a legitimate liberal grassroots movement, or another example of astroturfing? Bob Owens and William Jacobson look into the pot and see grounds for believing the latter.

Since media-types have seen fit to refer to tea-party people as “tea-baggers” ( a sexually suggestive term), I see no reason why we should not coin our own disparaging description of the folks in the Coffee Party. How about “kopi-luwackies”?

Kopi Luwak the most expensive coffee in the world does exist, and those who drink the expensive coffee insist that it is made from coffee beans eaten, partly digested and then excreted by the Common palm civet, a weasel-like animal.

Perfect. Liberal activists are typically weasels, and they’ll swallow anything as long as the price-tag is big enough.

I realize that "kopi-luwackies" is rather too many syllables, and not particularly melodious; on the other hand, it's less vulgar than "civet turds". I invite readers to submit their own appropriately scornful epithets.

(H/T: Stacy McCain)