www.kremlin.ruRaul Castro and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev That's what political writer Mickey Kaus is wondering over at his blog on Slate.com, pointing out that every time the U.S. seems to be getting too cozy with Cuba, Castro pulls some shit just to let everybody know he's either a bad ass or bat shit crazy. This actually isn't Kaus' theory; as he points out New York Times writer Ann Louise Bardach connected these dots back in 2003 when she took a look back at U.S.-Cuba relations and not
Local campaign strategist Michael Caputo likes to employ some fowl play in his election day tactics.
In the mid-1990s, Caputo busted out his patent-pending tactic of using a man-in-a-chicken-suit-to-tail-opponents when he worked for Russian President Boris Yeltsin's campaign.
Back when he was spokesman for ex-School Board Member Frank Bolanos' failed campaign against state Sen. Alex Villalobos, Caputo had a volunteer don a chicken suit too. Bright yellow and bearing the nicknam