What's Castro up to these days?

I don't know if this is a mildly entertaining or serious post. In his weekly column for Granma, the leader of the worker's paradise ponders the pronunciation and origin of Rahm Emanuel's surname. The Trib reporter, Gary Marx, had a similar interaction with Fidel, and it earned him an extra 22 months on the island since his last name was Marx.

Here's how Fidel spends his time (story):

"Where does it come from?" "It appears Spanish, easy to pronounce, but it's not," Castro wrote of the name. "Never in my life have I heard or read about any student or compatriot with that name, among tens of thousands."

Castro oddly cited the similarity of Emanuel with the name of great German philosopher Immanuel Kant and also mentioned the name of a child, Emmanuel, who was born in captivity to a Colombian politician kidnapped by rebels.