O Come, All Ye Chosen

Mid-November means that it's officially pumpkin spice latte and peppermint mocha season at Starbucks. (What, you don't measure time by the seasonal offerings of national coffee chains? You don't know what you're missing.) That also means that it's time for the Starbucks holiday cups, those red, snowflake-bedecked beacons of wintry tidings. A Moment employee who spends many of her non-working hours lugging her laptop from one DC Starbucks to another, dismayed that the cups teetered into Christmas territory, sent the following email to Starbucks: I love the seasonal coffee cups - when I was at school in Boston it made the winters a little more festive, and red is admittedly my favorite color. But I was wondering if you've ever considered doing a Hanukkah themed cup - maybe in metropolitan areas where there are large Jewish...

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