People are always dumping on CNN for being too liberal, or not liberal enough. But I, for one, am just grateful we have a media outlet with CNN's resources willing to ask the tough questions and tackle the burning issues of the day.

The question, yesterday, was “How does McDonald's new premium McCoffee compare to Starbucks and Dunkin' Donuts?” To get an answer, CNN's Jeanne Moos stood outside CNN headquarters at the Time Warner Center on Manhattan's Upper West Side and persuaded passers-by to participate in “an unscientific, totally amateur” blind taste test.

Is it a case of life imitating a silly spy movie parody? The Carlyle Group, in a joint venture with Bain Capital Partners and Thomas H. Lee Partners, is acquiring Dunkin’ Donuts from the French company Pernod Ricard for $2.4 billion dollars.

Remember how Starbucks was Dr. Evil’s shadow corporation in “Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me?” The Carlyle Group is a consortium of former world leaders and inside-the-beltway billionaires. I didn’t know dealing in donuts was such a good deal. Do I detect a whiff of world domination here?