Russian Prez Candidate Missing

Ivan Rybkin, a major critic as well as competitor of Russian president Vladimir Putin (Mr. Bush likes to call him "Putey-Poot"), has gone missing since Thursday, according to his family.

Read the text and you'll see this is a strange one. A murder investigation was opened and then just as quickly closed. Some Rybkin allies say he's alive and fine. I doubt Mr. Putin would be beside himself in tears if Rybkin failed to appear again.

But the presidential run-off is in just over one month (March 14th).