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Wired: Underwire (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
V, ABC’s promising reboot of the ’80s alien-invasion drama, is getting a new leader even before the show makes it to the airwaves. Review: V’s Hypnotic Alien Leader Demands Submission Scott Rosenbaum has been named show-runner and executive producer of the new sci-fi show, which debuts Tuesday, according to Variety. Rosenbaum (Chuck, The Shield) replaces Scott Peters,...
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Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Are the days of the maximum leader coming to an end? Two events in the past few days, perhaps trivial in themselves, hint at a sea change in the politics of Trinidad and Tobago. One was the reaction when a member of the United National Congress, speaking from the floor at the party's meeting on Sunday, called for Basdeo Panday to step aside in favour of another leader for the party-and...
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The Scratching Post (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Someone is staying home to keep an eye on the blog. Our Maximum Leader has wisely chosen not to go to Santa Fe with us.
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The Register (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Nokia Foundation rewards cult Foundation leader Jimmy Wales can add "Nokia Foundation scholarship" winner to his list of achievements, having received €10,000 for his sterling work as Maximum Leader of the Wiki.… What is your recession sales strategy?
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The Scratching Post (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Background here . Last night we made sure the cat door was open and sure enough, our Maximum Leader floated up the stairs on a cloud of glory* and fell asleep in the chair in the master bedroom. The Catican Compound now includes every square inch of the house except the beds of the two people allergic to her. She's never been happier in her life. Neither of our allergic family members...
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The Scratching Post (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
For the very first time ever on this blog, I've decided to post a picture of me the author with our Maximum Leader. We took this last night on our way to a Halloween party.
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The Scratching Post (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... and they can even flow uphill. Last night, our Maximum Leader was outside in the Catican Compound. The doors to our house were closed. This morning, she was found asleep in a chair in our master bedroom when I woke up. I think she flowed under one of the doors and then up the stairs into our bedroom*. Here she is having washed ashore on one of our sofas. Unseen, enigmatic tides will...
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lewrockwell.com (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
The Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cultby Written in 1972, this was the first piece of Rand revisionism from the libertarian standpoint.In the America of the 1970s we are all too familiar with the religious cult, which has been proliferating in the last decade. Characteristic of the cult (from Hare Krishna to the "Moonies" to EST to Scientology to the Manson Family) is the dominance of the guru, or Maximum...
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The Scratching Post (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Our Maximum Leader just ralphed right into her water dish. A perfect bulls-eye! Ewwwwww.
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The Scratching Post (Free subscription) | 10/18/2009
... it's now the Catican Compound. The Catican is the name that our Holy Scribe , Niall Mor, gave to the home we made for our Maximum Leader in the garage. The recap, my new wife and one of her sons are allergic to cats. Having our Maximum Leader live in the garage and have access to the backyard seemed like a good compromise. As fitting a Maximum Leader, however,...
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The LLama Butchers (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Yes, today is the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. No, I don't have anything original or even especially intelligent to say about it this year. (Go bow down before our Maximum Leader if that's what you're...
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Amateur Economists (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
On October 1, the People’s Republic of China marked its 60th anniversary with an impressive military parade, musical performances and portraits of Sun Yat-sen, Deng Xaiping, and Mao Zedong. It’s the occasion for a boomlet for Mao nostalgia in China. This, one can kind of understand. He was the founder of the PRC. After liquidating his rivals, he was the maximum leader of the Chinese Communist...
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
Why on the outside? Because it will make it easier to enforce the decree that "all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half hour," as the new dictator of San Marcos declares in Woody Allen's Bananas (1971). Venezuela's maximum leader and the world's chief proponent of Bolivarian Revolution , Hugo Chavez, is making Allen's parody look almost prescient. For...
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Dawg's Blawg (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
A few sides, and then I must prepare for the feast in my mead-hall: Hors d'oeuvres The Liberals' Maximum Leader--all intellectual hat, no cattle--is plummeting in the polls. Well, that's not news, and hasn't been for weeks. But L. Ian MacDonald sums up (emphasis added) my own feelings of frustration, which, in pectore , have to be amplified considerably amongst the Liberal rank and file:...
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View From The Porch (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
...and it keeps getting stranger every time I check. Can someone explain to me why the Maximum Leader of Guinea is wearing what appears to be a Jerry fallschirmjäger badge on his red beanie?