Maszman Speaks!

Quick ques­tion. Who’s more likely to burn in Hell, gays or this fetid pile of shit mas­querad­ing as Chris­tians?

As much as we’d like to put a face on the prob­lem, call­ing for the ouster of the head of CPSC isn’t going to solve any­thing. Besides, the prob­lem isn’t the CPSC, it’s indus­try that has aban­doned US fac­to­ries and US work­ers in order to whole­heart­edly embrace Chi­nese man­u­fac­tur­ing. The low wages, thanks to near-slave labor con­di­tions, com­bined with low or non-existent reg­u­la­tions (envi­ron­men­tal, safety, raw mate­ri­als) makes for an attrac­tive pack­age, but it’s becom­ing hard to over­look the asso­ci­ated problems.

South Car­olina blog­ger Philip Smith won an impor­tant rul­ing in favor of blog­gers’ rights when a court dis­missed a defama­tion suit against him. Smith had posted crit­i­cally about a com­pany, BidZirk, which then took him to court and harassed him for over a year. While the rul­ing does not strictly equate blog­gers with jour­nal­ists, it does estab­lish the blog­gers share some of the same rights afforded to jour­nal­ists in such situations.

Looks like it may be time for less thinkin’ and more doin’!

Fup, the book­store cat at Powell’s tech­ni­cal book­store has passed on at age 19. The Powell’s newslet­ter always had a Fup sec­tion at the end, it just won’t be the same with­out it.

Pre­lude, orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz.

My office is oppo­site the wall where the vend­ing machines are. When­ever someone’s snack fails to get out of the stack, I know it because I can hear and feel them rock­ing the machine. I try to make sure they real­ize that they’re not the only ones in the build­ing but I missed the guy that bought this one.