July 3 - Ith has sad news: James Doohan, the actor who portrayed Scotty in Star Trek, is Battling Alzheimer's.

He will appear at a Trek convention in August to bid farewell.

According to his page at imdb, he was born in Vancouver in 1920. The article says he was a D-Day warrior:

"If you ask him about D-Day, he'll go on about an hour about D-Day," Chris Doohan said.

A native of Canada, James Doohan fought, and was wounded, in that historic World War II battle as a captain in the Royal Canadian Artillery.

July 4 - 21:49: Mike posts how Doohan lost a finger on that battlefield. I can't believe this isn't more widely known.

July 7 - 07:33: Here is a permenent link.

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July 2 - One of the terrific things about the Shotgun is the ready access to good posts that say what I meant to say.

A case in point: Spinkiller's musings over Bill Cosby's challenge to black Americans to take back their dignity and futures, and his reflections that Cosby's words are relevant to everyone who has adopted victimhood status.

Victims are people who can't win. Is that the legacy you want for your children, or do you want them to stand tall?

Read the whole thing. If more people start to re-examine the racism and patronizing attitudes that are too often shielded by words like "compassion and caring," maybe we can begin to stop the kind of emasculation that is being promoted by the politics of victimhood.

Any other South Park fans thinking about the episode with Cosby taking on the Streisand beast? I'm thinking we oughta demand a rematch!

July 3 - 08:51: CTV news last night called Cosby's remarks "jabs at African-Americans" which was a cheap shot and indicated how utterly they failed to comprehend what Cosby was talking about. They did, however, air statements by Jesse Jackson which backed up Cos.

Somebody needs to write a post about empty nest syndrome in the nanny state.

09:52: Alpha-Patriot also has an impassioned post on the speech, did some research on reactions to it, and closes with a fervent hope.

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July 2 - CNN TV is carrying the news that actor Marlon Brando died yesterday at the age of 80.

That's the "number three" we've half-expected.

15:21 Link added.

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