Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader, keeping true to his monarchist tendencies, would like to wish Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain to the Commonwealth of Virginia. (As does our friend, the highly esteemed Mr. Cusack.)

Her Majesty should be arriving in Richmond shortly and beginning her whirlwind tour of the States. She will visit the newly renovated state Capitol building. She will visit Jamestown to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of that permanent colony in the new world. She will visit with President Bush in Washington and go to the Goddard Space Flight Center and Children’s Hospital. On Saturday, she will take in the Kentucky Derby.

All in all it is not a bad way to spend a long weekend.

Carry on.