Got To Love The VC

Watch how they shift from funny-sad (lawsuit by the family of a man killed after a patented Benihana "flip the Shrimp into the mouth" maneuver went horribly wrong) to funny-angry (Russian Politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky going 14th century on his views of Condi Rice). Best shot by Volokh:

Zhirinovsky, it turns out, also writes: "The civilized world should think and decide whether unmarried political leaders should be forbidden from coming to power. Now in the Soviet system this was all developed to an A+ level. Leading positions were open only to family people, free from inferiority complexes." And a lovely bunch of family people they were.

At the moment, the link to the article in question isn't working for me, but Ann Althouse has a good excerpt.

Just a brief word on Dr. Rice, by the way. It is impressive how she is one of the few remaining Bush administration officials to have a relatively positive public image (in America at least). Compared to Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzalez, or Dick Cheney, she's far and away the only one who isn't politically radioactive at the moment. Perhaps "most popular Bush official" is a bit of a backhanded compliment. But her disavowals not withstanding, it does make her a legitimate threat should she try for the 2008 presidency.