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The Liberal Mind at Work

By Wlady Pleszczynski on 7.4.10 @ 2:03PM

James Traub, reviewing a new book on Dominican baseball success in today's N.Y Times, blames the dearth of Cuban baseball talent in the U.S. on "the United States' trade embargo against Cuba, which shut off the flow of Cuban players after 1962 (unless they were willing to defect)."

Here I thought it was Castro's totalitarian policies that kept all Cubans, including the baseball players, imprisoned on their own island all these years, except for those brave few who risked life and limb to defect. But that's not the way the New York Times and its contributors see the world. And so we have a new kind of economic law: The way to beat an embargo is to defect to the embargoer, hoping that the target of the embargo doesn't shoot you first.

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Jeff Perren| 7.4.10 @ 8:26PM

"The Liberal Mind at Work"

It's a wonder to behold, to be sure.

AuntieMadder| 7.5.10 @ 2:50AM

This is crap. Liberals neither have minds nor do they work.

JmsA| 7.5.10 @ 11:00AM

What utter nonsense. The dearth of Cuban players in the Big Leagues has nothing to nothing to with the U.S. economic "embargo," but Castro's communist dictatorship which does not allow Cubans to travel abroad.

Barry O'Bamry| 7.5.10 @ 12:16PM

You people have it all wrong. The Cuban players can leave any time they wish. But, because of the superior health care, not to mention thier superior way of life very few even contemplate leaving thier island paradise.

The Cubans are a vibrant, musical people who sing and dance on thier way to work; they've been able to create the perfect mixture of Marxism and native ecological primativism to confect a society in perfect balance. They have no need for such bourgouseois things as clean water, electricity, toilets that work, and automobiles. Thier baseball players would much prefer to spend thier talents picking bananas, and tobacco, and singing patriotic anthems to thier glorious leader Fidel , and his chief propogandist Oliver Stone.

martin j smith| 7.5.10 @ 4:06PM

I have an idea. Oliver Stone should emigrate to Cuba
amd be a poster boy for their way of life. Also stay there with my blessings. And that means permanently forever and do not return.

Margie| 7.5.10 @ 5:03PM

When it comes to walking the walk, these Hollyweird folks never keep their word. Look how many times they've said they're going to leave the U.S. yet they are still here.

Come on, guys~ I know it's not because ya can't afford the plane tickets!!