Loyalty oath
Conditioned to spend: Seattle’s twin corporate behemoths, Amazon and Starbucks, have begun requiring their customers to spend more to qualify for freebie “rewards.”
The corporations rolled out the new plans after extensive testing, which involved lab rats running through mazes in seatch of food pellets dispensed sometimes by young women with nose rings and other times by people driving big brown delivery trucks.
Big hairy deal: A lock of John Lennon’s hair clipped nearly 50 years ago recently sold at auction for $35,000. The buyer was a self-described “professional hair collector.”
The Buzz can just picture this guy going about his business, followed by a couple of men in white coats holding big butterfly nets.
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt signed an agreement with Cuba to lease the area around Guantanamo Bay to the United States.
If the Cubans were crafty enough to slip a “no torture on the premises” clause in the lease, America won’t be getting our damage deposit back.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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