June 8, 2004
UNLIKE MORRISSEY, CASTRO NEVER CUT A DISK WOTH LISTENING TOO:
Castro: Reagan 'Never Should Have Been Born' (NewsMax Wires, June 8, 2004)
Cuba harshly criticized former President Ronald Reagan and his policies on Monday, saying he "never should have been born."In the first reaction to Reagan's death from the communist government, Radio Reloj said:
"As forgetful and irresponsible as he was, he forgot to take his worst works to the grave," the government radio station said.
"He, who never should have been born, has died," the radio said.
One of the only things that makes us ashamed of America is that this tinpot dictator still oppresses his people today. Posted by Orrin Judd at June 8, 2004 12:15 PM
Might as well call him "He who must not be
named!"
This is as fine a tribute to Reagan as can be imagined.
Posted by: David Cohen at June 8, 2004 12:27 PMUNLIKE MORRISSEY, CASTRO NEVER CUT A DISK WORTH LISTENING TO
Morrisey cut a disk worth listening to? When was that?
Posted by: Mike Morley at June 8, 2004 12:31 PMMike: I can't imagine why OJ is being generous, either.
Posted by: Chris at June 8, 2004 12:47 PMNot the worst thing that'll be said about Reagan this week by a Harvard graduate.
Posted by: mike earl at June 8, 2004 12:48 PMMike:
Even this B-side collection is good:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002LBH/juddsbookreviews
Posted by: oj at June 8, 2004 12:50 PMHere's a fitting tribute: We begin bombing in five minutes.
Posted by: David Hill, The Bronx at June 8, 2004 12:52 PMAs I learn more and more of the tinpot dictators of the world, I'm beginning to wonder how it is that the people they oppress can't muster the courage to stand up to them.
"A Bug's Life" is not a deep message movie. But I can't help but comparing people like Castro, Kim Jong-Il, and Saddam to the grasshopper boss, and the people to the ants. The ants are stronger than the grasshoppers, but they don't know it.
Posted by: Roy Jacobsen at June 8, 2004 1:21 PMConsider this: Castro and the Ted Ralls and George Galloways of the world still have to wake up every morning knowing that Communism is dead...
... and Ronald Reagan killed it.
No wonder they're all nuts.
Posted by: Will Collier at June 8, 2004 1:43 PMOJ: I checked out the Smiths album you linked to at Amazon . . . listened to the 30-sec. samples . . . color me unimpressed. (I never went in for the Detached, Ironic 80's Sythesizer Band sound.)
Poetic justice would be this: Morrisey has to sit through Castro's speeches, and Castro has to sit through Morrisey's concerts.
Posted by: Mike Morley at June 8, 2004 2:28 PMWell, if you're not down with mope rock...
Posted by: oj at June 8, 2004 2:33 PM"Morrisey cut a disk worth listening to? When was that?"
Not since the Smiths,baby.
"Well, if you're not down with mope rock..."
Mazzy Star and Julee Cruise.
"I never went in for the Detached, Ironic 80's Sythesizer Band sound."
Even that had some good stuff hidden in the chaff.
"Poetic justice would be this: Morrisey has to sit through Castro's speeches, and Castro has to sit through Morrisey's concerts."
Poetic Justic would be making the radical chic listen to both.
Posted by: at June 8, 2004 2:48 PMIt bemuses us on this side of the pond that the Smiths managed to attain such popularity in the States.
Morrissey's concerns and general deserted-seaside-town miserabilism seem to be uniquely English.
The lyrics of 'Everyday is like Sunday' could be Betjeman or Larkin.
Posted by: Brit at June 9, 2004 8:17 AMBrit
Amricans have always pandered to their European betters,from the fox hunting old gentry of the south to the robber baron's who sold their daughters to bankrupt english aristocrats for respectability,to the Beatles and tired marxist theories today.
Posted by: at June 9, 2004 9:19 AM