I feel a little bad about this, but I read an article about Putin’s ploy to become de facto dictator-for-life of Russia, and all I take away is the image of Putin walking topless through the brush, carrying a massive hunting rifle.

I mean, sure he’s trying to engineer an electoral margin large enough to amend the Russian constitution and allow him to legally run for several more terms as President. Sure this would only entrench Russia’s continuing slide from democracy to dictatorship. Sure the power vacuum left at Putin’s eventual death or retirement could ignite regional and even global stability made all the more dangerous by Russia’s stockpile of unsecured nuclear weapons and their possession of nuclear technology that would be snapped up by many a rogue state.

But with pecks like that, who could I vote against the guy?