Our coblogger Jim Bovard has some choice quotes in Sunday’s New York Times about the weird (and seemingly anti-American) practice of naming executive branch officials after Russian dictators, themselves named after that guy who crossed the Rubicon. I especially liked this idea:

Mr. Bovard proposes that government czars at least get to wear special hats, “like something from Gilbert and Sullivan,” to make them feel special and to differentiate them from other federal officials.

The NYT piece mentions his essay “Ten Thousand Czars,” which can be found here.

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