In a recent e-mail, someone asked why I haven't commented on Castro or Cuba. The simple answer is that, on some subjects, I find it hard to top Kinky Friedman, the former musician and novelist now running for governor of Texas as an independent. Kinky, pictured below standing on my desk, has said about the cigars he smokes, "Hell yes it's a Cuban cigar. But I'm not supporting their economy, I'm burning their fields."
That's the kind of creative approach to Cuban policy that the United States needs.
(Okay, it's not really Kinky standing on my desk. It's the Kinky Friedman doll my brother sent me recently.)