Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader hates it, absolutely hates it, when Skippy writes the post that your Maximum Leader was thinking about writing (only without all the references to sex and self-loathing).

Well… Obviously Skippy read the same Washington Post article that your Maximum Leader did yesterday. The one that went: Gonzales to get power in death penalty cases.

You can get a pretty good feeling for your Maximum Leader’s feelings on this matter by reading Skippy’s post entitled: Alberto Gonzales wants to kill you quickly.

Now just to clarify a points on which Skippy and your Maximum Leader disagree:

1) Your Maximum Leader isn’t a big fan of lethal injection. Sure you have to take what you can get with all the anti-death penalty weenies out there talking about “cruel and unusual punishments.” Your Maximum Leader just happens to think that a headman’s axe is neither cruel nor unusual.

2) Your Maximum Leader thinks that black hoods should be left for executioners…

3) Well… Okay… There were only two major ideas from Skippy’s post with which your Maximum Leader disagrees.

Your Maximum Leader agrees with Skippy (and fair-minded people everywhere) that Alberto Gonzales is a cretin. (Excursus: Your Maximum Leader never ceases to be amazed at the degree of loyalty show by President Bush to his appointees. At one point your Maximum Leader might have been impressed by this trait; now it is just sad.) He agrees that the Patriot Act is being shown (once again) to be a bad law. He agrees that the “federalization” of criminal activity usually left to the states is a bad thing. And finally he agrees that any supporter of the death penalty ought to be seriously distressed by what is happening.

Read the Post piece and then read Skippy’s piece. Both are worth your time.

Carry on.