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Friday, August 06, 2010

THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH: Epic television we haven't seen in DECADES

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Who'da thought that the story about the building of a church would make for the grandest use of the television medium since Lonesome Dov...

The 367 miles per hour school bus

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Sporting a jet engine from a Phantom fighter plane, this school bus that Paul Stender and his team at Indy Boys Inc. out of Indianapolis hac...
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Thursday, August 05, 2010

Happy 80th Birthday to Neil Armstrong

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The Knight Shift and its eclectic proprietor would like to join the very many other admirers of Dr. Neil Armstrong in wishing him all the b...

Proposition 8, states rights, and the end of jury nullification

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Two things that trouble me about California's Proposition 8 - the "gay marriage" ban - being struck down yesterday by Chief U....
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Wednesday, August 04, 2010

Don't pretend it isn't true

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Politics is the pursuit of power by those who rarely deserve it.
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Huh?!? So the plot for INCEPTION was already done in a Scrooge McDuck comic book?!?

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Yesterday the Internets were lit up about how Christopher Nolan's new film Inception shared some common elements with one of Bill Wate...

Darth Plagueis novel WILL be published after all!

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James Luceno is a happy man: word came out a few days ago that his long-simmering Star Wars novel about Darth Plagueis is going to be publi...

Man robs restaurant, calls back to complain about small haul

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Crime does not pay. At least it not pay enough for one Atlanta-area robber, who held up a Wendy's and then phoned the restaurant to gri...
Tuesday, August 03, 2010

CALVIN AND HOBBES did INCEPTION first!

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Props to GeekTyrant for noting that years before Christopher Nolan's cinematic foray into dream country with Inception , that Bill Wate...
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Fred Reed's take on WikiLeaks

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The inimitable Fred Reed - who I consider to be the Internet's greatest curmudgeon - has weighed in on the WikiLeaks issue . And as is...
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Monday, August 02, 2010

Severe geological activity about to happen?

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I may get called a "kook" from some quarters for writing about this. All I can really say in my own defense is that it's some...
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Sunday, August 01, 2010

Greetings to all of y'all at the 2010 National Boy Scout Jamboree!

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Tonight I'm sitting in Reidsville... but my heart is at Fort A.P. Hill. Here's bidding a hearty "hello" to all 45,000 or s...

Question for anyone who's playing STARCRAFT II

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Is this game really that good? I'm thinking of getting it. And should I play the original StarCraft first? Believe it or not, for al...
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Friday, July 30, 2010

Anne Rice: Clinging to Christ but leaving Christianity

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Is it possible to follow Christ but not to claim to be a Christian? Some of us have pondered and discussed that question at great length. ...
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Chris is so lazy, he reviews PREDATORS, THE A-TEAM and INCEPTION with one post!

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Dear Lord, it's worse than anyone thinks. Y'see, so far this summer I've only seen three movies. What does that mean: that th...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Top 10 politicians' lines... and why they're always lies

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Good friend Danny de Garcia II forwarded this piece from his own blog: "Top 10 Politician Lines (And Why They're Lies)" . I a...
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