Greetings loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader must also wish the Big Hominid’s Dad a Happy Birthday. The Big Hominid’s dad is one of the best people I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. If the world had more like him, I would begin to doubt my own Hobbsian tendencies. Perhaps because there are so very few like him, he is that much more great. Happy Birthday!

Your Maximum Leader was perusing the Classical Values site today. Normally, on Friday over on CV, he posts results of web-quizes he’s taken. Today one fascinated me. So… If your Maximum Leader were a country he’d be:

You’re
the United Kingdom!
You’re a much weaker person than you used to be, but you still
act like you did when everyone looked up to you.  Despite this, you’re
probably a better person than you were when you had so much power over those
around you.  Though you do have a strange fascination with jewels and monarchs,
which lets you play in castles, but also end up leading a sort of tabloid lifestyle.
 You really like the Beatls, even more than you like Oasis.
face="Times New Roman">Take the Country
Quiz at the Blue Pyramid

Your Maximum Leader isn’t sure about the “weaker than you used to be,” insofar as it refers to his person. But overall he likes the outcome.

In other news…

Have the planets aligned? Are the heavens about to fall? One of the greatest duo’s in TV/Movie history reunited (if only for 30 seconds)! Allah be praised!

Of course, your Maximum Leader doesn’t really think Allah had anything to do with that last bit. But he is sure funny! And by the way. Go, read!

Your Maximum Leader is a little disappointed in Dr. Burgess-Jackson today. It is about Pete Rose. I was, for years, conflicted on the whole “What to do with Pete Rose?” issue. Now I am not. I believe Pete Rose should be posthumously inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. When Rose was a player, he was great. He always played to win, and you could see it. But, as a manager he violated the cardinal rule of the game. He bet on baseball. As others have said, no violation goes more to the heart of the game than betting on the outcome of games. It calls into question the basic integrity of the contest. Pete Rose allowed himself to get banned from the game by not controlling himself. He must now suffer the consequences. If you like you could read what one of your Maximum Leader’s favourite players has to say about the whole mess.

Scotch and Cigars…. In Scotland… Heaven.

Did you know Anna at Primal Purge was back? Your Maximum Leader loves her. Words hardly explain the pleasure I get from reading her stuff.

Your Maximum Leader bought a CD the other day. It was Tom Jones Reloaded. It is awsome. He was just listening to “Sex Bomb” on the way to the Villainschloss…

Not much else going on….

Carry on.