Banning Books in Miami: It's no Laughing Matter

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