Fidel Castro, Cuba, castro death watch, havana, habana

the health of journalists unjustly condemned to Castro’s Gulag during the Black Spring of 2003 suffers:
Families and friends of eight independent Cuban journalists who have been unjustly imprisoned since 2003 say that the health of their loved ones has seriously deteriorated in recent months amid poor prison conditions and insufficient health care.
In a series […]

He wouldn’t want to live in Cuba:
“Their rights and protection from potential genocide and violence depended on them never trying to organize politically as blacks,” said Mark Sawyer, a UCLA professor who spent 11 months in Cuba researching his recently published book, Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba.
That kind of talk also likely scares […]

According to a new study 30 percent of Cubans are overweight. The other 70 percent are still in Cuba.
Heh, heh, good one, Jay!

Babalu Blog and a few others have been watching closely as Matt Lauer (of NBC’s Today Show) reports from Cuba this week. As can be expected of the MSM’s coverage of Cuba, Today’s reportage has left viewers with an inaccurate impression of the island and the 48 years of Castroite destruction of the Pearl […]

As you can see from the previous post, I’ve been quite busylately. So I couldn’t think of anything more imaginative for this month’s poll than to ask…

What should next month’s (July’s) poll question be?

When will Castro die already?

WHY won’t Castro die already?

Who cares about Castro, it’s summer!

He has been dead for a year

How will […]

…since I last posted. A lot has been going on in my life lately, from the miniscule to the humongous:

My recent spat with the phone(y) company, as detailed here
I’m getting married in a little more than a month
I moved to a new place–rather, I’m still in the process of moving in (just got furniture […]