One down, several million to go

[wombat_socho]

Keep jiggling the beads, brothers and sisters. We may yet get Russia back on track after all these centuries of backwardness, schism, and misery. I mean, if even the former General Secretary of the CPSU is making pilgrimages to the tomb of St. Francis, who's to say there's no hope for the likes of Vlad Putin and his gang of not-so-merry thugs?

(Instapundit)