...I think I’ll need to be making regular trips to Babalu Blog today to find out what’s going on.

It is a day tens of thousands have waited for--but I wonder what it means? With Raul in control, how much will change? What comes next? And does Raul’s release of four dissidents yesterday carry more meaning now that we see what Fidel has done?

Babalu Blog will have a unique perspective on all of those questions and I highly recommend visiting to get the antidote to the MSM glare.

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Update: And here are the presidential candidates on the announcement. Perhaps predictably, I find myself drawing a little closer to John McCain. Hillary Clinton just prattles on a bit and says not much, Obama says much the same as McCain (but he says it, to me, less convincingly), and McCain’s statement is most forceful, certainly more aggressive.

Which, yeah, that appeals to me.

Update 2: Politics, pragmatics, and sugar subsidies in the wake of Castro’s retirement.