Today I Learned

that Cubans aren't allowed to have the Internet in their homes.

Courtesy of NPR.

It's a bit shocking to hear. It's easy to idealize a country that provides universal health care and used to have a goal of radical equality for all.

I know that equality didn't really transpire and certain people were persecuted. I don't know all the rest of the details. I was reading a biography of Che Guevera and the stuff about Castro was fascinating, but it's a giant book and I had to take it back to the library unfinished even after renewing it twice.

Paul Krugman has a really good editorial about poverty in the Times today.

That is all.