Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader is now at the beach, and he is feeling much better. But on the not so good side of the equation… His internet connection is very dicey… So it is unlikely that he will blog again until next week.

He did want to take note of the passing of Beverly Sills. Your Maximum Leader remembers many old 33 rpm recordings of Sills that his saintly mother used to play when he was growing up. He remembers seeing some performances in the late 1970s broadcast over PBS. He also remembers his dear departed grandmother “shushing” him when he spoke during a Saturday afternoon Texaco radio broadcast on which Sills was a featured performer.

You should read the Post’s Obit for Sills. If your Maximum Leader had a better connection now, he’d try and get one from one of the New York papers…

Carry on.