Greeting, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader is changing out his bejeweled floppy hat today. He is going to be wearing a coonskin cap today in honor of the 300th anniversary of the birth of founding father, Ben Franklin. You know, of all the founders Ben Franklin always seems to be the most fun. Naturally inqusitive. Funny. Prankster. Ladies Man. Philosophical thinker. Pillar of his community. All those things and so many more were Ben Franklin.

If you would like to learn more about Ben Franklin, your Maximum Leader will commend his Autobiography to you. It is a very good read. Of course, you may also be able to find Walter Isaacson’s recent bio of Franklin at your local bookstore.

If you are living in the Philadelphia area, your Maximum Leader suggests you get yourself on over to the Franklin Institute. While the Institute is closed today (to celebrate the founder’s birthday no doubt - there is a little delicious irony there) it will reopen tomorrow. Get down there and see it. Very cool.

Carry on.