Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader is a shareholder in the Norfolk Southern Corporation. Why? Because he loves railroads. (He also likes diversity in his stock portfolio and thinks it is wise to own some transportation stocks - even if high fuel costs are currently a bugbear for the industry.)

And why then, you may ask, is your Maximum Leader weeping? And how does his weeping relate to Norfolk Southern?

He weeps over 20,00 gallons of spilt beer. Out in Southwest Virginia (where the Norfolk Southern train transporting the beer apparently derailed) there are thousands of college students and NASCAR dads wailing.

Cary on.