Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader has a few quick announcements to deliver this morning…

First and foremost… You must all go and vote. Yes, vote. Go and vote for the 2005 Weblog awards. This annual ritual wherein the “blogosphere” conducts non-scientific polling with the unintentional affect of hurting some other blogger’s feelings has begun. Your Maximum Leader (who strangely was not nominated for anything) has a few recommendations for his minions.

In the “Best Humor/Comic” blog category you must - MUST - go and vote for the Hatemongers. For Gawd’s sake, your Maximum Leader is an honourary Hatemonger… It is your DESTINY to vote for the Hatemongers.

In the “Best Culture/Gossip” blog category you must - MUST - go and vote our friends the Llamabutchers. If you don’t Robbo might be forced to do all Bach-blogging all the time. (And the LMC will never get to do “Flash in the Pan” babes again!) UPDATE: You can also vote in good conscience for Jeff at Beautiful Atrocities. That is a toughie actually. Indeed, if you have multiple computers vote for the Llamas on one and Jeff on the other…

And in the “Best Conservative” blgo category you must - YES MUST - go and vote for Loyal Minion Rusty Shackelford (and his minions) at the Jawa Report. If you do not, the terrorists have won.

Your Maximum Leader will make no other endorsements (unless he feels like it). Until informed otherwise, you are free to vote you conscience. Remember you can vote once a day. And if you are lucky enough to own multiple computers, you should vote from each multiple times per day.

In the “other announcements” category… Your Maximum Leader completely forgot he has a trip scheduled for this week. He is going off to the wilds of western Pennsylvania for a few days. During that time his access to the internet will be scetchy at best. So he will have to hope for a repeat of yesterday when his loyal ministers took up the slack and spent the day taunting each other.

Carry on.