Greetings loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader has found a number of interesting news stories and thought he would share them with you. (In case you missed them.)

Churchill’s Orkney Barriers get new life.

Humm I like what they are doing to beautify the college campus, aka: PoMo art gone bad.

And thanks to Ben Kepple (now over on the blogroll) there is this item about the EU giving up on classifying the Scottish Kilt as a skirt. Idiot Belgian bureaucrats. Not like the Scots haven’t been saving your pathetic asses every time your big ole next door neighbour comes a knocking… Really. I know the EU bureaucrats are anti-American. Are they now generally anti-British as well? Hrumph.

And your Maximum Leader went to a Scotch tasting the other night (Thursday in fact) sponsored by The Glenlivet. (Photographic proof exists here. I’ll let you guess which one is your Maximum Leader and which ones are loyal minons. One hint, I’m not a blonde woman with shapely breasts.) As much as I enjoyed this event, I still prefer Glenfiddich. And particularly care for Glenfiddich 15 year old Solera Reserve. But as a result of this event I might swing out and get a bottle of Glenlivet French Oak Finished 12 year old. And I will conclude this comment by mentioning that a sure-fire way to get on your Maximum Leader’s good side is to ply him with copious amounts of free (and very fine) scotch (served by attractive women in very very short kilt-skirts).

Carry on.