Back on June 4th, I posted some bookmaker’s odds on who would be chosen as running mates for both Presidential campaigns. Looking back, Joe Biden was considered a long shot at 20/1 while Sarah Palin wasn’t even considered, not even listed in a field that included such unlikely contestants as…

Chris Cox- 15/1
Condoleezza Rice- 15/1
David Petraeus- [...]

This is a genuine case of a government trying to silence a rock and roller. Gorki Aguila has a band, Porno Para Ricardo, in Cuba.
From the Miami Herald.
Aguila was picked up Monday during a rehearsal for an album tentatively called Geriatric Central Committee, an apparent jab at the aging members of Cuba’s communist party [...]