Indulgence? Once, we knew the true meaning of that word. Indulgences should be decadent, degenerate, altogether de trap. They should not be decaffeinated.
The 1890s swept cheerfully by on a torrent of absinthe, champagne, and opium. Today, smoking is out, sex is “inappropriate,” and a few beers will get you branded a “binge drinker” by Harvard’s School of Public Health. Which leaves coffee. It’s allowed, and pathetically the country is grateful, even excited. Too FDA’d out for real, unvarnished bad-for-you fun, America has defined delight down.
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