Mike Stafford: Weekdays 10am-12pm & 1pm-2pm

I've been everywhere in the Caribbean but I always swore I would never go to Cuba.  Not because Gloria Estefan and Andy Garcia and the whole annoying Cuban expat community in Miami tell me not to.  They've already turned a vibrant, gentlemanly city like Miami into a bitter Hispanic hole.  Shut up and sing.

 

I just don't like the romantic bullshite about Fidel and his trusty photogenic psycopathic sidekick Robin...err, I mean Che.  "But it's cheap!", Canadians scream.  So's Steelback beer and I'm never drinking it.  And Steelback has killed and imprisoned fewer people.

 

And my friends who anxiously await every trip to Varardero and Cayo Coco so they can bring pillowcases filled with aspirins and crayons and nylons.  Are you going on holiday or a Worldvision mission? 

 

And that other demographic cramming the charter flights for a trip to the splinter in America's index finger: greybearded teachers and CBC ...

Sun Media today announced another sixty billion layoffs to keep their TV station solvent for more "According To Jim"'s and "The Grill Room".  Included in the Christmas massacre was reporter Don Peat.  I read the Sun every morning on-line and Don Peat seemed to generate about 75% of the copy at the feisty tabloid.  But he's young and there's a union at the Sun now so he's gotta go find new work while somebody with seniority can sit comfortably on his hemmoroid cushion and check the wires. 

 

Nice.  Good luck to Don and others at the Sun who I've read on a daily basis in what was a great newspaper.

 

On that topic, the topic of jobs and job losses, forestry and media and banking and advertising and health care and local variety stores and other industries suffer but those job losses are never described the way Ontario minister ...

Hmmmm...perogies.

 

Wasn't THAT fun this week kids?

 

Tomorrow when I fill in for John Oakley:

 

Religion and how some people get it so wrong!