The Czar got an interesting off-the-record email worth putting back on the record. Specifically, it regarded whether we use nicknames or pet names for political figures.

For example, Rush Limbaugh can never refer to Sen. Harry Reid except by a nickname; Mark Levin has some insulting terms for various persons, and other media hosts and bloggers have all sorts of potshot names for the President and other democratic figures.

No, you are correct—we don’t do that here. Well, ‘Puter certainly will get creative but he does not mock the person’s name, only their titles or positions or claims. And he will do so by completely changing it, lest anyone think the Czar is unaware of ‘Puter’s enjoyable terms for Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Not one of them mocked Sen. Warren’s actual name by malforming it.

Anyway, the policy on this is quite clear: mocking names into nicknames is what the liberals do, and it is puerile. For example, we will tolerate referring to the President as The One (a term coined by a fawningly adolescent Oprah Winfrey which we believe the President relished), but not as, say, Obamao.

Whether it’s Bushitler, Gen. Betrayus, or any of the thousands of other examples liberals use in place of real creativity, we won’t do it here, and yes—if we republish your emails, we will edit them.

Unless they’re funny.

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.