Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader will take a moment to apologize to you all. He’s not really been updating his blog too much this week. As you all know, he has been enjoying the best guest weblogging gig in the whole internet this week. If you haven’t read his posts over on The Hatemonger’s Quarterly… Well, allow you Maximum Leader to give you a few links. Here they are: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

This week has not gone quite as your Maximum Leader expected. First off, he is at the beach. That is a bit unexpected. He’s been at the beach since Wednesday. When orginally planned, the Villainous Family (minus your Maximum Leader) were going to go to the beach on Tuesday. Then on Friday your Maximum Leader would join up with them and remain until this coming Monday. But plans changed and now your Maximum Leader has been enjoying himself in the bosom of his extended family in a big roomy beach house.

Now before you all go crying out “Pshaw… Life must be really tough on our Maximum Leader.” in that ironical voice you all have. (Don’t argue about it. Your Maximum Leader has heard your ironical voice before… *) Please know that even though he is at the beach, he has had to continue to work in all of his Maximum Leaderly duties while scheduling pool time, sauna time, swimming time, eating time, grilling time, and gazing at young attractive women in their bikini time. All that is a hard task - even for your Maximum Leader.

So… While your Maximum Leader has been juggling his time around, you - the loyal minionly readers - have suffered. He’s spent his little time for blogging trying to write something that doesn’t suck for the Crack Young Staff over on HMQ. He must admit tha he felt good about his Gibson and Castro posts. The others are just, ‘okay.’ Consider this post an apology in the Socratic sense for his dearth of postings this week.

Carry on.

* - your Maximum Leader knows that “ironical” is not a word. Unless you are George W. Bush; in which case it is. Your Maximum Leader was using the made-up word to mock you.