From the home brewery in Milwaukee, we learn that the local “alternative” paper, the Shepherd Express, lines up with Stuttaford’s strange species: they celebrate Fidel Castro as a “Big Time Winner” of 2003, since he was, get this — “Elected to a sixth term since 1976 at the age of 76.”

PS: Former Doobie Brothers lead singer Michael McDonald performed at a Kucinich benefit in Austin, Texas. Perhaps his biggest hit for the Doobies was, well, “What A Fool Believes.”