Be thankful as you rush to finish your tax return tonight...

...that we won the Cold War.

Otherwise, what's now happening over in supposedly post-Soviet Russia, as reported to Glenn Fleishman at Wi-Fi Networking News, could well be happening over here.

Looks like some of the party apparatchiks that were rendered superfluous by communism's collapse still haven't managed to find meaningful work.

Here's a suggestion, Mr. Putin. Line them all up, hand them shovels, and then re-enact the ditch-digging scene from "Cool Hand Luke."