Ick

Just when I thought that the cult of Putin couldn't get any worse, Russians prove me wrong. They deserve him, they really do.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/02/13/putin.movie.ap/index.html

On the other hand, there's hope for us, perpetually late folks. Unlike all the books on career advancing and becoming organized, which would like us to believe that tardiness will inevitably lead you to poverty, public humiliation and agonizing death, here's the example of the always tardy guy making it to no less than the president of the largest (or second largest?) country in the world. Not bad. Then again, it might only be possible in Russia and probably only acceptable for a man. Nevertheless...