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They have the same kind of "success" the czar in Russia had - they were born into it.

> They have the same kind of "success" the czar in Russia had - they were born into it. Oh brother.

Maybe Zuck is trying to strengthen his image as czar of Facebook, powerful but still social.

Bennet was a "drug czar" under George H W Bush. This editorial is hardly news." Ex drug czar thinks drugs are bad" is a more realistic title than the one given.

Bribe the czar's ministers? Recruit their relatives and start an old-fashioned Kentucky feud, complete with snipers and ambushes?

That this person is called a czar - from Tsar, and ultimately Caesar - tells you all you need to know. A life-long bureaucrat and academic who doesn't seem to have held elected office in her life.

While I'd like to think that there was an easy solution; say appointing an 'implementation czar' and requiring open source solutions be the default. I don't fool myself as to the likelihood of that working any better.

Russias former privatization czar Anatoly Chubais put it less delicately: They steal and steal. They are stealing absolutely everything.

You know I read about this story this morning, and it actually contained Mojtaba Ahmadi's official title which I can't remember right now but it certainly wasn't "cyberwarfare czar". That makes him sound like some fuckin' cocaine-fueled warlord demanding ransoms out of a cave, and not a government official.

At least it's consistent with his "documentation czar" title. Definitely sounds like a Czar to me.