346...I Had A Girlfriend, Who Looked Like

A boyfriend. Or something like that.

Rule number one of Internet dating is, if they won't meet you after the first week, they are never going to meet you.

If only Dr. Antonio Castro had of followed that rule. Dr. Castro, who is both the Doctor to the Cuban baseball team and Fidel Castro's son, fell in love with Claudia Valencia, a 26-year-old Colombian and had over 20 Internet chats with her over the last eight months. I dare say Dr. Castro fell in love with Miss Valencia.

One problem.

To quote Lou Reed "Miami, FLA..she was a he...", 46 year old Luis Dominguez, a Cuban-born Miamian who said he orchestrated the sting to "shatter the myth" of an impenetrable" security system around the Castro family. In a story that the Miami Herald ran last week, Mr. Dominguez said that Dr. Castro revealed that the elites live differently, better, than the non elites in Cuba.

Uh, duh.

Just like everywhere else.

Nonetheless it is pretty chill that Castro Junior got schooled by a middle aged dude pretending to be a hot girly girl.

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57...Opening Day

Why Time Begins On Opening Day was a best selling book published a quarter century ago by Washington Post baseball columnist Thomas Boswell.

Although I am not a massive baseball fan I am certain that you will agree that there is a certain je ne sais quoi about the first day of baseball, which, of course, is today.

This truly is, in my humble opinion, the first day of spring.

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