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