It has been a while since the Czar got a compliment. Not that we are fishing, but just setting your expectations at how welcome this email from Operative JS is:

Dear his august majesty el czar,

Thank you (and the other Gormogons) for the debate coverage. I like being able to read what happened plus a little commentary right after the debates have occurred. I continue to enjoy your take on the debates and I really like that I don’t have to watch them myself, as I have neither the inclination nor the willpower to sit through them. Kudos to you all for being able to.

Thanks, too, for continuing the rest of your coverage of national and local events and for being the most sane political blog on the internet. Keep that megalomania and world domination strong!

God Bless,

Operative J S

ps- sorry I haven’t written in a while. You’d be amazed at how difficult Houdini’s straitjacket is to get out of.

Thank you! This little note is enough fuel for the Czar to continue writing for another year!

We know there is a ton of analysis on the debates and the election, and too much of it is a downer. We each try to inject a little life into how much fun politics can be when it is being deadly serious.

And yes: we watch the stuff so you don’t have to.

May your days be sunny and bright….

цѣсарь

The Czar of Muscovy

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.