Starbucks and hypocrisy are like chocolate and peanut butter.

I used to laugh and mock and berate and generally verbally abuse people who are patrons of Starbucks. I mean really, what kind of self-aggrandizing, arrogant, yuppie assholes need to spend 4 or 5 bucks for a cup of coffee when you can brew one for yourself at home for a quarter, right?

Well, that was before I discovered the Vanilla Bean Frappucino with two shots of Espresso added.

Apparently, I'm a self-aggrandizing, arrogant, yuppie asshole.

Although, to rationalize and justify this to myself, I have to concede that a Vanilla Bean Frappucino with two shots of Espresso added is NOT something I could duplicate at home. So its not like I'm some kind of corporate whore, right?

At least, that's what I tell myself in order to sleep at night.