Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader is a little achy this morning. Lots of work around the Villainschloss over the weekend. The largest project, by far, was the installation of a new below-grade drainage system for taking water away from the building. 200 feet of trenches were dug. They were measured to assure proper depth and slope. Plastic tubing was installed and attached to downspouts. It was something of an ordeal.

The ordeal reminded your Maximum Leader that he needs to excercise more. He should go and spend some time down on the Smallholder’s farm doing hard labour from time to time. Because the digging and pushing and pulling and such wore him out.

Anyho… In other news…

Did you read the Hatemongers today? It made your Maximum Leader laugh. Specifically the line “Buckwheat of American higher education.” elicited an audible laugh.

You know… Preston asks a hard question. Your Maximum Leader wishes he could take the Kissinger approach. (After Henry Kissinger who said of the Iran/Iraq war, “It’s a pitty they both can’t lose.”) But if he had to choose one, he would actually go with Fox’s Halloway coverage. The poor girl is dead. It is unlikely that we will ever find out how or why it happened. That is tragic. But sometimes these things happen. One could make a case that focusing on Sheehan at least gets a serious topic (the Iraq War for those of you who have “zoned out”) into regular discussion.

Hey… Do the V-man a favour. Vote according to his wishes for some bridge project. Your Maximum Leader has. (A few times in fact.) Alas, your Maximum Leader isn’t sure how much the poll will count. When they (whoever “they” are) were investigating options for replacing the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in the DC area your Maximum Leader voted for the mega-expensive-but-better-for-the-view option of an 8 lane tunnel under the river. It would have left the river open for navigation and would have dramatically improved the view from Alexandria, Virginia. A tunnel was the first choice of most people. But as the tunnel cost some un-thinkable amount of money (the figure could have been tens of billions of dollars for all he knew) they went with a bridge…

As your Maximum Leader asked you to remember Bosworth field Lemuel asks that you remember the Soviet Invasion of Czechoslavkia. You should. As well you should be thankful that the Soviet Empire doesn’t exist and Eastern Europe is free to live according to their own custom, tradition, and will. (Except for all that EU crap they seem to want to join.)

Your Maximum Leader rented “Alexander” over the weekend. Damn it sucked. He knew that going in. But he didn’t anticipate the suckiness to the extent he got it.

An interesting aside… The last two movies your Maximum Leader has rented were “Alexander” and “The Passion of the Christ.” He had a weird thought due to these films last night while attempting to fall asleep. Suppose one was a Hindu and believed in reincarnation? Further, as a Hindu you might believe that one of the purposes of reincarnation was to allow yourself multiple lifetimes during which you could learn lessons needed to be learned to eventually extinguish your existance. That said… Could Jesus of Nazareth have been Alexander the Great reincarnated to learn about peace and love since he had already learned about war and conquest? Hummm… That could be the scotch thinking there…

Carry on.