Remember those Diebold voting machines that several (including I) denounced as unstable and insecure?

Remember those Diebold voting machines that several (including I) denounced as unstable and insecure? As it turns out, they ARE as unstable and insecure as we said. I wonder how many “back door” votes were needed to reelect the President…

Putin pulls strings, has Khodorkovsky’s lawyer expelled from Russia.

Putin pulls strings, has Khodorkovsky’s lawyer expelled from Russia. Russia should just drop the flimsy pretext that they have rule of law and name Putin Czar Vladimir already. It wouldn’t improve things, but at least it would project a more honest image to the world — that the country is an absolutist state ruled by the whims of its President, and where the legal system is used against said President’s enemies, real or perceived…