■"Castro injures knee, arm in fall: Accident puts focus on leader's age, mortality," by Anita Snow, Boston Globe, 22 October 2004, p. A12.
The point here is certainly not to make fun of an elder who slips and breaks some bones: that's a very real danger we all face as we get older and it's something we all worry about with loved ones and friends as the get into the later decades of life.
And certainly, Castro's feeling the love of his people right now, who blindly continue to follow his rule despite the fact that the only thing he's managed to do is to take their economy progressively backward in time over his long, corrupt, repressive rule.
Don't worry Havana, when 78-year-old Fidel gives up the ghost, his idiot "younger" brother Raul, a spry 73-year-old waits in the wings. I'm sure he'll be a vigorous leader for about the first couple of days following the funeral all those Cuban exiles in Miami have long dreamed about.
After these two "geniuses" of the revolution, who've completely broken the economy in Cuba, thanks in no small part to our continuing embargo and sanctions, which only serve to keep these two jackasses in power by giving them the only shred of legitimacy they've ever had: they're anti-American in a culture that overwhelming loves America and desires connectivity desperately with us.
But that's socialism, folks: it mandates that despite the "historic success of the revolution," little old Cuba hasn't been able to produce even one person who might—Marx forbid!—replace the Big Man in 45 years of running the economy into the dark ages (quite literally, in fact).
Thank heaven that God placed an irrevocable term limit on Fidel. This fall just brought him one trip closer to permanent retirement.
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