GOOD RIDDANCE. HE WAS A BRUTAL DICTATOR, EVEN THOUGH HE REMAINED THE DARLING OF AMERICAN LEFTISTS. Fidel Castro is dead. The New York Times’ obituary seems sad. The only sad thing is that JFK didn’t manage to kill him and spare Cuba decades of slave-state one-man rule. And I feel sorry for the NYT. First Trump gets elected, now Castro’s gone. Their whole world is shattered. . .

UPDATE: Yes.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Heh.

Yes, an exclamation of pleasure at his demise is entirely appropriate.

PLUS: Yes.

And, of course:

FROM THE COMMENTS: “Reading Juncker’s tweet, Brexit makes even more sense.”