Let’s Not Get Ahead of Ourselves
From the abstract of a Christian Science Monitor story:
Laura Chinchilla won the Costa Rica election Sunday. She’ll be the country’s first woman president, echoing a trend across Latin America where women are being voted into high-level political office in record numbers.
Record numbers, eh? Actually, the article states the, um, ahem…actual number was two: President Michelle Bachelet of Chile and President Cristina Elizabet Fernández de Kirchner of Argentina. President-Elect Chinchilla now makes that number 3.
But that serves as a record, especially compared to the US, where the number is none.
Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.