Hasta La Victoria Siempre

A piece at the Freeman, on my visit to Cuba nearly 15 years ago.

Not really a happy story. 

Do As We Editorialize, Not As We Do

Why was Jill Abramson fired as Executive Editor from the NYTimes?  (I have to admit, I didn't know that it had happened.  I stopped reading the NYTimes on principle after their remarkable--and never corrected--hatchet job on the Duke lacrosse players...)

The story appears to be that she actually believed that the male "Progressives" who run the NYTimes, the propaganda wing of the Democratic Party, actually believed the stuff they always say about equal pay for women.

Clearly, they do not.  And if some "girl" does try to the pay she deserves, she is "pushy" and gets fired.  Wow.

With a nod to Susan L.

This week's sign of the apocalypse

So one broke-ass para-statal firm made this product, and an incredibly useless, failing, fatuous government advisory board, doesn't like it.

No padding on the skateboarder, no helmet on the batter, cannonballs are dangerous, yada yada yada.

I've heard of the theory that video games cause violence, but stamps causing reckless behavior? Really?
Does anyone seriously think a postage stamp will get a kid to change their behavior?

I thought the damn government was shutdown, but apparently not the president's council on fitness sports and nutrition.

Shouldn't the nannies review products BEFORE they are produced?

And finally, if crap like this can happen, why do we even have (17%) of a government at all?