| Some people never learn.On August 16th, in | | | | otherwise.Well, wouldn't you know it, after |
| the EzineArticles.com's entry "Hey, I was | | | | joking about how much it will cost the school |
| only kidding!: Crossing the Line in Miami," | | | | board to defend their action in court-- |
| it was reported how a stand-up comic made a | | | | estimates of at least a |
| dangerous mistake joking about the Cuban | | | | quarter-of-a-million-dollars-- with |
| exile community's short fuse when it comes to | | | | predictions by legal experts that they will |
| questioning their interepretation of the | | | | lose, he went into a riff about how Cuban's |
| "American Way." The response that night was | | | | are more like Castro then they care to |
| nothing compared to what happened last | | | | admit."The next thing I know," the once |
| night.Last night at the MiamiVision Comedy | | | | standing-up comic recalls from his hospital |
| Club, he was attacked by an angry mob who | | | | bed while nursing a black eye and a couple of |
| didn't find him very funny at all. What began | | | | broken ribs, "someone threw a mojito in my |
| as a luke warm reception to some well-worn | | | | face and started cussing me out in spanish. |
| jokes in the sparsly filled club on the | | | | When they rushed the stage, I thought I was |
| outskirts of Little Havana, quickly turned | | | | going to die. I had a flashback to that old |
| into a mob scene when the comic tried to get | | | | 'Frankenstein' movie when the villagers are |
| topical. Hours earlier the news reported that | | | | chasing Boris Karloff through the night with |
| the Dade County School Board voted to | | | | torches. Well, one guy was flicking his Bic |
| challenge a Federal Judge's order to stop | | | | at me, that's pretty close to being a torch, |
| them from banning the book "Vamos a Cuba." | | | | I guess. Anyway, the last time I got into |
| The book, part of a series depicting | | | | trouble down here, I discovered if I yelled |
| different countries for 5 to 7-year-old kids, | | | | 'I just heard Castro died!' it'd save your |
| was deemed by the 4th largest school district | | | | ass. This time it didn't."Mercy Hospital |
| in the U.S. to be unsuitable for children | | | | expects the MiamiVision Comic to be released |
| because it painted a false picture of life in | | | | tomorrow pending further tests.D.C. Copeland |
| Cuba. The kids in the book actually seemed to | | | | is a writer and award-winning artist. When |
| be enjoying their lives and, according to the | | | | visiting Copeland's personal website and blog |
| large and very vocal Cuban exile community, | | | | you will discover that Wayne Cochran is the |
| that ain't so and it's a lie and a danger to | | | | Patron Saint and that many people consider it |
| kids living in Dade County to tell them | | | | to be "The Rodney Dangerfield of Blogs. |