Fidel Castro being sick and temporarily stepping down while he recovers, I got to see Cuban emigres celebrating in a huge street party in Miami on CNN.

Their glee is rooted in, we are told, the fact that they're so damn "pro-democracy"...or, to be more historically accurate, they're nostalgic for the dictatorship they liked, pre-1959 which, as Hyman Roth said of the Batista regime in Godfather II, "respected private enterprise," and on account of which they vastly prefered it to the post-1959 dictatorship that had the bad taste to take away their sugar plantations and wealth and use it for social reforms that resulted in Cuba after the revolution having some of the best health, literacy, child mortality, education, etc. rates in the western hemisphere and beyond. Oh yeah, and the loudest "pro-democracy" elements of the Cuban exile community in Miami enthusiasitcally supported the violent coups against democratically elected leftist governments in Venezuela in 2002 and Haiti in 2003, which gives you an idea of the kind of "democracy" they'd like to see in Cuba--can we say "death squads," kids?--but let's not mention that.

Home sweet adopted home.

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Sorry, enough of that. Back to revising....