All 7100 corporately owned Starbucks locations in the US will be closed today from 5:30p to 8:30p tonight for some sort of training exercise. EVERYBODY PANIC!!! I'm not personally a coffee drinker nor do I have a propensity to frequent these places, but I can see where this brief espresso-less period could snarl a [...]

The ‘Ocracy is your weekly Friday link dump, filled with all the stories I was too lazy to plagiarize throughout the week. NBC fired Bud Collins?  If there was ever any justification at all to watch tennis, it’s gone now. – Awful Announcing The Pens resign Erik Christensen and Max Talbot, ensuring shoot-out wins and [...]