With all the excitement over Mitt Romney quietly picking up Illinois, neatly folding it, and putting it away in a sideboard until needed in November, and with Rick Santorum giving a quasi-concession speech that is starting to cushion supporters he might be done, and with the pundits scratching their heads over Newt Gingrich’s continued strategy of winning by letting Mitt Romney get all the delagates, you might have forgotten about Ron Paul, who is running for president.

No, don’t get excited; the Czar said Ron Paul, not Rand Paul. Yes, Ron Paul is still running and getting single digit support equivalent (by random coincidence) to the same percentage of folks who think legalizing drugs is not only a great idea, but hey man, Jefferson Airplane and Starship are two different bands with the same members! Way hey! What are the odds of that?

Anyway, the most endearing doctor since Marcus Welby is still making news. Of a sort: he announced that he has no intention of utilizing secret service protection because (ready?) secret service protection is a form of welfare.

Wow. The Czar is shocked.

Ron Paul has enough popularity to warrant an offer for secret service protection?

The Czar of Muscovy

Божію Поспѣшествующею Милостію Мы, Дима Грозный Императоръ и Самодержецъ Всероссiйскiй, цѣсарь Московскiй. The Czar was born in the steppes of Russia in 1267, and was cheated out of total control of all Russia upon the death of Boris Mikhailovich, who replaced Alexander Yaroslav Nevsky in 1263. However, in 1283, our Czar was passed over due to a clerical error and the rule of all Russia went to his second cousin Daniil (Даниил Александрович), whom Czar still resents. As a half-hearted apology, the Czar was awarded control over Muscovy, inconveniently located 5,000 miles away just outside Chicago. He now spends his time seething about this and writing about other stuff that bothers him.