A report from Spain says that Fidel Castro is in grave condition. Myanmar's strongman Than Shwe has been hospitalized at a Singapore hospital. One of the spookiest (and least known), Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan, didn't quite make it to 2007, sparing his country and the world of more of his bile on December 21, 2006.

Meanwhile, two of the late Saddam Hussein's henchmen have been executed, to the consternation of about 3,000 Sunnis.

Reports that everyone else on the friggin' planet are glad about these developments were not immediately confirmed, nor paid much attention to by the mainstream media.

Other bloodthirsty thugs, including Bashir al-Assad, Robert Mugabe, and Kim Jong-il have reportedly asked Human Rights Watch to continue its recent coverage of the unfair treatment of dictators by God and their victims.