Maszman Speaks!

James Doohan, who played Scotty on Star Trek, got his star on the Hol­ly­wood Walk of Fame. A num­ber of his co-stars were also present.

Doohan recently revealed that he has Alzheimer’s and will be quit­ting the con­ven­tion circuit.

It all comes clear: Send jobs over­seas, win valu­able prizes.

Once again I have to say there’s no one in con­tem­po­rary Amer­i­can pol­i­tics who speaks for me. I know I can’t be the only one who feels this way. I don’t want to be faced with the choice of vot­ing for some­one I don’t like or some­one I don’t like less than the other one, but that’s what’s I’m see­ing right now. I work, I pay taxes, I vol­un­teer in my com­mu­nity, don’t I matter?

Sup­pos­edly, IT worker turnover is stay­ing low even as the econ­omy “improves”. Could it be because there are sim­ply fewer jobs and there’s no place to go?

I used to respect Sen. John McCain. Now I real­ize he’s drunk the koolaid like all the others.

Our munic­i­pal water tastes and smells a lit­tle funny because of an algae out­break. But we don’t need to worry, or so county water offi­cials say.