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Czarface

The government likes to appoint "czars" to oversee certain aspects of public policy. I think the first one of these was drug policy, hence "drug czar." Now there's a "car czar." It's getting pretty damn czarry.

What are we doing naming public policy deciders after Russian emperors, anyway? 1) They're Russian; 2) They're emperors. About as unAmerican as you can get without waterboarding someone, you know?

More importantly, with all these czars around, who gets to be Rasputin? Can I apply for the job? I understand it involves drinking vodka and mumbling incoherent mysticisms. Oh, and being harder to kill than an internet meme. I can do that.

(Edited to add: Even the Brits are getting on the czarwagon, though of course they can't spell anything right:

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1795&Ite...)