"compulsive trekerbaiter" - a person who MUST work star trek into every conversation, no matter how unrelated, ill-timed or inappropriate. Examples:

"I disagree that The Prisoner was a great science fiction show because #6 didn't just beam out of The Village."

"All these race riots in the US wouldn't happen if we lived in The Federation, where earth is a Maoist utopia!"

"Starfleet could take out the star wars imperial navy in a fight."

"I'm real sorry your grandpa died. You know, in star threk they'd shoot him out a torpedo tube."

Normally I have a column on mondays, but I forgot to write one, and my computer's busted. All I have at present is this cruddy little I-pad, which only barely qualifies as a computer at all. So, since I can't really do anything useful, I'm going to plug my latest original song, "Murderin' Shovel."  I can't actually post the video itself (because that would be useful, and as stated I'm limited to an I-pad),  but i can at least post a link to the video. Check it out:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u_DWM6BLDeo

My son was asigned to write a short paper about a veteran in honor of Veteran's Day. He chose to write about my dad. I thought I'd re-print it below:

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My grandfather(1931-2011) was a former member of the United States Air Force.