The New York City school system has banned former teacher Nathan Turner for taking five students on an unauthorized field trip to Cuba in 2007. Turner resigned in 2008, so whatever, and besides, he had a good reason.

Hugo Chavez runs Venezuela like a little kid playing "If I Was President," just randomly banning things that displease him. Which, at rare intervals, results in him doing something awesome. He is the first leader brave enough to destroy golf!