Tag Archives: Caribbean

Hurricane Gustav

By Matt Mitchell | Published: August 27, 2008
Can the Crescent City, the coolest city in the United States, survive another hurricane? NOAA predictions put Gustav right in the mouth of the Mississippi sometime around noon Monday, with very little between it and Cuba to slow its progression into a hurricane. It’s a little like getting shot in the face, surviving, and then [...]
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Viva Fidel

By Matt Mitchell | Published: February 29, 2008
Reflections by Comrade Fidel. Oh yeah, he should get a blog, or at least set up RSS for these articles. El Jefe is jefe no more, handing the reigns to brother Raul, ending the tenure of the Last Great Revolutionary. What does this bode for Cuba, pearl of the Caribbean Sea? Not much in the immediate [...]
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Fidel Castro: Still Bitter

By Matt Mitchell | Published: March 29, 2007
Fidel Castro’s written another article lambasting US policy, this time for conceptualizing a conversion to biofuels from fossil fuels. In it, he claims the United States will be responsible for three billion deaths due to starvation. It’s easy enough to analyze the biofuel concept from the US point of view: our gov’t is tired of being [...]
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Vacation

By Matt Mitchell | Published: May 1, 2006
Damn I want to go to the beach, take a vacation. I want to sweat in that good way, sunburned just enough to feel it, to look a little red, so my skin feels stretched and tingly. I want to hear the waves lapping the shore, to read Monsoon by Wilbur Smith by Wilbur Smith [...]
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