Bread and taxes

Every so often a great man dies. Then again, real motherfuckers die on occasion, too.

Saparmurat Niyazov, president-for-life of Turkmenistan, has passed on due to either a cardiac condition, or poisoning, depending on what you read. This is a man who weaseled away some 3 billion dollars from his country, put a gold statue of himself on top of the tallest building in his country, and named bread after his mother. No, I don't mean that he had a loaf of bread with his mother's name, I mean that because of Niyazov, the Turkmen word for “bread” is now “Gurbansoltanedzhe.”

Ok. Wow. That's authoritarianism. No one in this country is allowed to complain about George W. Bush for another day. Instead, spend your time and energy hoping that Turkmenistan gets to have free elections in the wake of this douchebag's departing.