http://www.metafilter.com/tags/JamesCason Posts tagged with 'JamesCason' at MetaFilter. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:29:37 -0800 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:29:37 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/72984/Sing%2DMr%2DAmbassador%2Dsing Now that's what I call diplomacy! The US ambassador to Paraguay has become <a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/457/story/582020.html ">a music sensation</a> in the country after recording <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7485088.stm">an album of folk songs in the indigenous Guarani language</a>. This same James Cason was a conservative darling for, among other things, hanging Christmas lights in Havana a few years back... <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_25_56/ai_n13619666">this article</a> lauds him for "getting under the skin" of the Castro regime. Here's his <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cason">Wikipedia page</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.72984 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:29:37 -0800 ambassador Cason diplomacy folksong Guarani James JamesCason language music Paraguay flapjax at midnite