Lulu and the Dog from the Sea
Children will get only 24 copies of the book with the adventures of this wonderful and educational girl Lulu. Does that seem to you like too many copies? It’s 24 for the entire library system, which has 49 libraries. There’s not enough for one per library, only 0.4 pages for each. While the County budget announces cutbacks for books, the mayor supports the proposal made by the multimillionaire owner of the Miami Dolphins, who would renovate his stadium with his own money in exchange for NOT PAYING PROPERTY TAXES. The amount totals some $4 million a year. How many books could be purchased with that money? But Lulu and her dog, the dream her story creates, the gestures of love toward animals and nature, to all creation, are unimportant. They’re not profitable. Money and power-driven relations dictate that tenderness and good reading habits should die.
The sprinkler man
In our city, you can see anything and everything. Now the police is looking for a man who has urinated on several people as they walked near the University of Florida. Some guesses about the “urinator’s” motives are already being made. The most acceptable (and most fit for publication) says that the aqueous aggressor is a frustrated seminarian, a bit weak in the head, who believes that his voiding member is a hyssop and his urine is holy water. So, off he goes, baptizing everyone.
Versailles: In addition to food — magic
Why, yes, in addition to serving meals and violating 52 safety standards, the Versailles Restaurant now seems able to perform acts of magic, such as disappearing “illegals” who might have been working there. At least, that’s what employees Rigoberto Hernández and Adrián Mena say about the restaurant’s co-owner, Janet Valls. They say that Janet (and I quote El Nuevo Herald), said that “she could ‘disappear’ the undocumented workers if at any time the restaurant were investigated by the immigration authorities.” Will Janet apply for the job of magician at the Cirque de Soleil? Are she and fellow owners also using magic to explore the possibility of business with Cuba? Everything is possible.
‘Long term non-religious fasting’
They say the Castro regime plays beautifully with the language, and that’s true. But we can match that talent here in the States. The headline above is what the U.S. Defense Department calls the forced feeding given to prisoners on a hunger strike. At present we don’t know how many prisoners at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay (the prison with the largest number of political prisoners on the island of Cuba) qualify for treatment under this linguistic-religious euphemism.
