Oliver Loves Fidel

Have you ever wondered, out of purely morbid curiosity, what manner of thoughts lie festering in the mind of an insane asylum inmate? Sort of like a scientist examining a bug under a microscope?

Well, ta-da! Here's your chance to peek behind the veil, as it were!

Director Oliver Stone ripped President Bush while praising Cuban dictator Fidel Castro before the premiere of his movie "Looking for Fidel," at the 52nd San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain.

Stone charged that Bush stole the election with the help of anti-Castro Cuban-Americans in Florida, according to a report in Cuba's Granma newspaper.

On the other hand, Stone had nothing but praise for Castro, who has clung to authoritarian power with no elections in Cuba for half a century.

This is only a glimpse of his pro-Castro fawning. I suggest that we institutionalize this troubled man, now, before it's too late. He is a walking embodiment of the cliched notion that great artists are invariably unhinged. Except for the "great" part.