Just heard that Pierce County prosecutors have filed unlawful public exposure charges against the 19-year-old barista at Bikini Bottoms Espresso who was caught last year serving coffee in nothing but a thong and pasties. This is a big deal for two reasons. First, because, according to the News Tribune in Tacoma, this case represents “the first time Pierce County prosecutors have leveled such a charge since some area espresso stand owners began requiring their baristas to show skin in addition to making drinks.” Second, because it gives me an excuse to show a whole bunch of pictures of scantily clad girls serving coffee while still arguably pursuing the craft of modern journalism. Awesome!Needless to say, you’re going to have to click through the jump to see…Oh, you made it, did you? Because I’m sure you’re VERY concerned about the far-reaching legal ramifications of this landmark decision by Tacoma prosecutors to define the parameters of the standing public decency statutes. Yeah, that’s what I thought. Like everyone else that has elevated this story to the top of the News Tribune’s “Most Popular” list (and actually helped it to go all the way to the Washington Post’s website), you’re just hoping for a frank and open debate about the rights of free expression and entrepreneurship in an open and competitive marketplace, right?Liar. You’re looking for pictures of tits and java. And tits and java is what I have.Softcore–perfectly suitable for a prime-time commercial breakWhat Tina Fey would be doing if she wasn’t funnyStill perfectly reasonable. Maybe it’s just really hot in that little booth.One for the ladies–that’s Don Frossard from the Java Joint in Silverdale, BTWThis fight over tits and java has been going on for quite some time in these parts, a back-and-forth battle between cops, courts and baristas over how much skin is too much skin and where does a wonderful thing like lovely and upstanding young ladies in their underpants handing me cups of hot coffee become a slightly more sketchy thing, like morally-challenged proto-strippers getting ass in my latte? Here, basically.Yeah, maybe I should’ve said NSFW a little sooner?That snap (and other, WAY worse (and better!) ones) were evidence in the prostitution case brought against a bunch of the baristas at the Grab-n-Go stand in Everett–a charge that, while still ridiculous, makes a teensy bit more sense when you see all the quote/unquote evidence gathered by the police in that case.That’s an extreme example, though. The girl in Tacoma actually did manage to keep her pants on while pulling those espressos. (Well, her thong, anyway.) And her being charged with unlawful public exposure for allegedly working in nothing but a couple X-shaped pasties (which, according to the Washington Post, the deputy who busted her confiscated “as evidence”) is a far cry from just climbing up into the drive-thru window and flashing her lady business at camera-wielding cops (which is what the girls at Grab-n-Go were doing). But still, the public decency fight continues.Me? I am four-square in favor of anyone being allowed to wear anything they choose wherever the hell they want. These girls think they’re going to make more tip money by working in their underpants? I say good for them. I think the girls at my local Olive Garden ought to do the same thing. Ditto the receptionists at my dentist’s office and maybe one or two of the cashiers at the Krispy Kreme, too. And I’m not just standing up for tipped employees either. I think the justices of the Supreme Court would come off as a lot less stodgy and imposing if Antonin Scalia were to show up one day, sans Darth Vader robe, wearing nothing but cowboy boots and a banana-hammock. Or what about young(ish) alternative newspaper journalists who just don’t feel like wearing pants to the office every single day…Anyway, forget all that. I still remember why you’re here. More pictures of coffee girls in their unmentionables. Ask and ye shall receive.See? Don’t they look happy? Strippers never look this happy.Hey, that one on the right is wearing pants! I’m so not buying my coffee there…Someone should totally start a male version of the bikini coffee shop. And when they do, this should be their sign.But until then, “SexxPresso” is a pretty good name, too.Must be “Theme Night” at the coffee shop.How am I supposed to see what kind of coffee you’re serving with your boobs in the way?