During the last year of my undergraduate studies, when I was fortunate enough to live in a run-down 100-year old fraternity house with 9 of my friends, and all of their respective girlfriends, bar-sluts, drinking-buddies, teammates, study-partners, etc., it was not uncommon for our heating bill in the winter months to exceed $900. We had no insulation, 50-year old radiator pipes, old, unsealed windows, and no less than six doors permitting ingress and egress,...
A little under a year ago, I swore I’d never blog about FEMA again. At least in reference to Hurricane Katrina. At the time, I honestly felt the bit was played out – the media and the blogoverse had covered it like flies on shit for the better part of way-too-long. FEMA is a government agency. Government agencies are inherently unable to allocate resources, and the more urgent the situation, the more likely it...
Garcia says he’s not sure how he feels about the fact that Castro will soon be dead. “I am apprehensive,” he says. “Who knows what might happen next? But then I think: whatever happens, it can’t be worse.” Check out Caroline Overington’s Land of rum and rumba blighted by communism. Ms. Overington is, or rather, was a self-described apologist for Castro’s Cuba, the communism’s last stand: “It was a terrible...
