Not a very Sly move

With everything going on in the news lately, this is some mighty bad timing on Stallone's part:

Hollywood actor Sylvester Stallone, mighty destroyer of Soviet opponents in the "Rambo" and "Rocky" movies, now plans to advertise Russian vodka.

Russian vodka producer Synergy said on Friday it had signed a one-year contract with Stallone, who will appear in television and newspaper advertisements for the vodka brand Russian Ice, starting September 1.

Sources valued the deal at $1 million.

Stallone -- whose film character John Rambo killed Soviet troops by the dozen in Afghanistan and whose Rocky Balboa humiliated Soviet boxer Ivan Drago -- will advertise the product under the slogan: "There is a bit of Russian in all of us."

Yeah, and if you happen to be a certain small eastern European country, there's a lot of Russians in you right now.

Look, I'm not saying it would be easy for me to turn down a million bucks, and you all know how much a Moron like me enjoys the sauce, but still, not a very good PR move, Sly.