Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader sees on the news wire that President Obama gave Queen Elizabeth an iPod as a gift upon meeting her yesterday.

Now your Maximum Leader will not hammer the President for this gift like other conservative commentators have. It was a shiny new iPod. It was probably one of those G6 ones with a gazillion GB of storage. One reads that it was loaded with photos and video of the Queen’s 2007 visit to the US and photos and video of the President’s inauguration address. It also had show tunes pre-loaded. According to the article there were songs from “Camelot” and “My Fair Lady.” One hopes that there was also some Gilbert and Sullivan. Your Maximum Leader wonders if there was any British patriotic music pre-loaded for Her Majesty. You know, something cool like the Sex Pistols’ interpretation of “God Save the Queen.” (If you’d like to hear the song you can click here for a video. It wouldn’t embed correctly here… Sorry.)

Of course, this is Her Majesty’s second iPod. Your Maximum Leader seems to remember reading somewhere that Princes William and Harry got their Grandmum an iPod a few years ago.

One suspects that Her Majesty’s second iPod will wind up on eBay in a few days…

Carry on.