Punking Fidel Castro / Bridge to Cuba

I was in Key West last year for a couple of days. A friend and I drove down from Miami. At one point, we were walking around and a friend mentioned that at one time around the turn of the last century, they were talking about building a bridge from Key West to Cuba. After all, it is only another 90 miles.

I got to thinking about how many boats it would take to evacuate everyone from Cuba. Every single person. Prep all those boats, then call Fidel Castro and tell him he has one an all expenses paid ski vacation to Vail or something. Just get him out of town. Then evacuate the island. Boy wouldn't he be surprised when he came back to an empty country. Is a despotic dictator really a dictator if he has on one to dictate? (And, I have always wanted to use the word despotic in a sentence.)

It was funny at the time, but maybe I had just had one too many virgin daiquiris with the little umbrellas in them.