A Czar is Born

(EDITOR'S NOTE: We're getting lazy with picking titles. Yes, this one was blatantly stolen from Time Magazine. Our spelling is much cooler, though.)

Congratulations to Time's 2007 Person of the Year, President Vladimir Putin of Russia. (Sorry, Al, better luck next year. If there is a next year.)

I could go on and on about Putin's restoring Russia's political greatness at the cost of its short-lived date with democracy, or make the obvious comparisons to certain other members of the Person of the Year Club, but the articles linked above explain all that better than I could in the space available here.

So, in closing, let me make just one brief point instead:

Note to the Frau: told you so.