Japanese Company, SONY, changed the game for Americans by capitulating to terrorists' demands and invalidating the sacrifices that Americans have made to accommodate the new Homeland Security era. According to one comment we heard, SONY will be refunded all their production costs by an insurance company, and thus prove that it was worth the new danger level Americans will have to adopt because of their greed.
We heard an outrageous rumor that the bookshop/gift store at the Amalgamated Conspiracy Theory Factory was going to offer T-shirts showing portraits of Pretty Boy Floyd, Clyde Barrow, and John Dillinger and the words "White Lives Matter."
Nationally a great amount of attention was focused on the announcement this week that diplomatic relations would be restored between the USA and Cuba.
One of the minor effects of this bit of news is that
suddenly a visit to Hemingway's home near Havana
had vaulted to the top of our bucketlist.
Perhaps we could visit Key West for Hemingway Days and then get a chance to take a short flight and scratch visiting Finca Vega off the bucketlist.
Didn't Pan Am get started with a route from Miami to Havana? Won't there be a new opportunity for a small airline to provide that same service next year?
Didn't the CIA's staff at the station assigned to monitor Cuba and the Cuban exiles in Miami move to Saigon in the mid Sixties?
For our closing quote, we'll note that Hunter S. Thompson wrote: "I'd like to get hold of some priests' robes. . . . They might come in handy in Las Vegas. But there were no costume stores open, and we weren't up to burglarizing a church." (Roger that, HST!)
Now the disk jockey will play Lenny Bruce's "the Berkeley Concert" in its entirety, Stan Freberg's "Green Christmas," and Nathalie Cardone's version of "Haste Siempre, Comandante" (AKA the Che Guevara song). We have to go reread Norman Mailer's "Algiers Motel Incident." Have a "buy the ticket; take the ride" type week.
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