Is There a Shortage of Peanut Butter Crunch?

I've noticed this a few times in the past, but it has been notable the last two times I've been grocery shopping--the stores are low on inventory of Peanut Butter Crunch cereal. Two weeks ago, I was at a Target, and the cereal aisle contained plenty of regular Cap'n Crunch and Crunch Berries, but there was seemingly no Peanut Butter Crunch. As I was standing there wondering how this could be, a couple came up and the woman got on her hands and knees and reached to the very back of the bottom shelf and pulled out the last remaining box of Peanut Butter Crunch. She gave it to her husband and said, "See how much I love you?"

Then last week, I was at a Cub Foods and again in the cereal aisle. And again, plenty of regular Cap'n Crunch and Crunch Berries, but no Peanut Butter Crunch (at Cub, the Cap'n Crunch cereals are on the top shelf). But having learned from the woman at Target, I reached up and rooted around behind the boxes of regular Cap'n Crunch and was able to find the last remaining box of Peanut Butter Crunch.

So I was wondering if this is a local problem, or if there is a general shortage of this most tasty cereal?

Independence Day Wisdom from Calvin Coolidge

I saw this paragraph from a July 5, 1926, Calvin Coolidge speech linked at Instapundit, and I needed to post it to remember it and to contemplate the wisdom contained in the text.

About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.