As a nice start to the weekend, POTE maturely critiques my last post regarding the AP article in his post “Nathan Goulding gives me a headache.”

And so begins a litany of the many awful things that the State Department says are occuring [sic] in Cuba. One problem: None of that does any damage to the AP writer’s story, which simply reported that most Cubans don’t view political repression as a problem, nor do they see any preferable alternatives — which, the story notes, are “unknown” to them.

One problem: the article only quotes two individuals — a park cleaner, and a retiree. If these people represent most Cubans, we should be shocked that an “average” Cuban sleeps in a shed, is divorced with a family in Mexico, still smokes after having had throat cancer, and isn’t aware that political dissidents routinely get imprisoned, beaten, and refused medical care (and/or sunlight).

Of all the “intellectually feeble” posts I apparently put together, I’m surprised this is the one he chose to pick on.