You win some, you lose some

NATO warship sinks pirate ship off Somalia. They let the pirates go, though.

Medvedev demands Russian officials resign. Olympic coaches let go too.

"Of course, we expected more," Putin said. "But all the same it's not a reason to lose heart, scatter our heads with ashes and beat ourselves to exhaustion with chains."

P.S. Um. Perhaps the Russian coach should have kept his mouth shut last week. Via Reason's Hit & Run:

“Let’s put up a bunch of guillotines and gallows,” Vyacheslav Bykov, the team’s coach was quoted as saying last week. “We have 35 people on the hockey team. Let’s go to Red Square and dispatch with them all.”

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