Time is on my side, yes it is
I found this at La Nueva Cuba. Tick tock.
Posted on December 10th, 2006 by pwyll
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From hell to paradise
The day before Thanksgiving I received an email. Here’s what it said.
OK, here are some depressing photos of Cuba. Take a look, share with others, and thank our parents or inlaws for getting the hell out of there in time!
Included in the note was a PowerPoint presentation of some sixty or so photos of [...]
Posted on November 26th, 2006 by pwyll
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Things not remembered are as if they never were
An old memory surfaced today, one I had not heard from in years.
I was a freshman in high school. It was a Saturday morning, my parents had gone to get groceries, I stayed home. The phone rang. An operator asked me whether I would accept a call from Cuba. Yes.
It was my uncle, a [...]
Posted on August 1st, 2006 by pwyll
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Cue the world’s smallest violin, and get ready to party
Word around the net is that Fidel Castro has (temporarily, of course) turned power over to his brother. As it happens, I first read it on Instapundit, posted by guest blogger Megan McArdle. She writes
CASTRO IS STEPPING DOWN TEMPORARILY due to illness, and handing the reins of power over to his brother. From what I [...]
Posted on August 1st, 2006 by pwyll
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Which way are the rafts headed?
My favorite blog ever was Steven Den Beste’s now retired USS Clueless, which I started reading in early 2002. One of the other blogs I remember from back in the day was Eject! Eject! Eject!. I ran across it today after a long absence, and was pleased to see Bill Whittle still in fine [...]
Posted on June 20th, 2006 by pwyll
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Well said
Today, even after the evidence of massive man-made famines in the Communist world, after Solzhenitsyn’s revelations about the gulags and after the horrors of the killing fields of Cambodia, the useful idiots continue to deny or downplay staggering human tragedies under Communist dictatorships. Or else they engage in moral equivalence, as Newsweek editor and [...]
Posted on May 14th, 2006 by pwyll
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