With the welcome return of Ken Parish, Ozplogistan is just about back to full strength, though the blogging blues are affecting quite a few. Ken threatened to talk about trivial fluff like the High Court and Lomborg, but has instead gone straight to the crucial issue in modern life – the difficulty of getting a good cup of coffee, particularly in the United States. This should certainly attract some responses from outraged American aficionados, who are unlikely to be appeased by his concession that Vietnamese ‘weasel coffee’ (I can’t bring myself to describe this) is even worse than Starbucks.

Having made some incautious statements on this subject myself, I’ll observe that the US situation is highly variable – some places are good and getting better, but there are others where the sight of a Starbucks would seem like a godsend.