No minority is so despised and ignored as the individual....

It’s being reported today that Condoleezza Rice, President Bush’s now-National Security Advisor and soon-Secretary of State, underwent surgery this morning to remove non-malignant growths in her uterus. The procedure is called a “uterine fibroid embolization” and word from the surgeons who performed the task is that Rice came through very well.

I’m led to keep Doctor Rice in prayer this afternoon, and wish her a speedy recover so that she’ll soon be back in action and none the worse for wear. Yes, I know: she’s one of Bush’s innermost cabal and I’ve made it quite clear – and with very good reasons – why he can’t be trusted. How he’s deluded a lot of Christians into believing he’s the embodiment of saintly righteousness when his real character shows him to be a very bitter, angry, vindictive and hateful man attempting to hide an evil nature behind the Bible. How ...

See this toad? I was looking over the stories on the Oddly Enough section of Yahoo! News and came across this lil’ item about how this species – the cane toad – is swarming all over Sydney. Being overrun by a Biblical plague is bad enough, but our friends Down Under had better pray that the cane toad’s other “properties” stay off the radar. Or else Australia threatens to become the Haight-Ashbury of the South Pacific…

Ground ‘Moves’ as Cane Toads Invade Park

Fri Nov 19, 9:21 AM ET
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of poisonous baby cane toads invaded an Australian national park Friday, hopping around in such numbers that the ground seemed to move, an ecologist said.

The ugly amphibians moved into the Arakwal National Park near one of the country’s famous surfing meccas, Byron Bay, following an explosion in toad numbers after recent rains.

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Halo is something I’ve never played but have come to be familiar with, since every Xbox owners around me has raved about it for the past few years like it was the only game for that system. I’m still not at the level where I can tell a “Covenant” from a “Master Chief” whatever the heck that is, but I understood way ahead of time that when Halo 2 came out last week that it was going to be a big, big deal for a lot of people. They’ll prolly spooge to no end if there’s any basis to this story…

Ain’t It Cool News is reporting this morning that Ridley Scott might be in talks to turn Halo into a big-screen flick: read the full story by AICN’s Quint here. Looks interesting. Though I still have to wonder if Larry Niven could sue Microsoft and Bungie Studios for ...

If – and Lord only knows why you may feel so inclined – you want The Knight Shift to come straight to your desktop via a newsreader program, you can do that now. Here’s the Atom Feed for this blog. Earlier this morning I finally sat myself down to figure out what this feed/RSS/Atom stuff was all about. It wasn’t really until I found Pluck during a search at Download.com that everything fell into place and ya know what, this is a pretty neat gimmick!

Oh yeah, I’m going to begin slowly revamping this blog’s appearance during the next week or so. Nothing major yet but if you want something different, head over to Zip’s Mighty Blog, run by a really cool guy I met at my wife’s high school reunion this past weekend. It musta been Zip’s picture with Bruce Campbell that turned my mind to think about ...

Every sensible and conscientious parent in America should swear an oath before Almighty God that they will KILL anyone from the government that tries to do this to their children. Failing to do that would only go to prove that they didn’t really love or care for their own kids at all.

Seriously. The line has to be drawn somewhere and if not here… well, then where?

To all the people who voted for George W. Bush a few weeks ago: congratulations, you elected a Nazi.

Because this is exactly what Nazism was as a political/economic system. It was (and is) an all-powerful central government married to corporate interests that serve toward furthering the state’s goals in exchange for a wide latitude for profit.

Looks like sometime in the next few days the U.S. Senate is going to vote on the “New Freedom Initiative”, Bush’s plan to force mandatory ...

“Name’s Ash. Housewares.”

Well why not? With Sears and Kmart merging it sounds a lot better than “Big S”.




“THIS IS MY BOOMSTICK!!”

Hail to the king, baby.
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Let me get this straight: our military can take over a hostile town in the middle of a god-forsaken desert… but can’t sponsor Boy Scouts meeting on their own bases?

It’s almost funny: that our government can topple most of the others in the world, but folds completely when taking on the ACLU.

Whoever made the ultimate decision to implement this policy is an idiot. For one thing, although it doesn’t ban Boy Scouts from meeting on bases, it certainly does discourage it, especially overseas where there are no realistic alternatives for meeting places. For another, a very large number of officers in the U.S. military were once Boy Scouts, and a lot of them made it all the way to Eagle Scout. By caving to the ACLU on this, the U.S. government is giving no appreciation to the Boy Scouts of America for the fine young men that have ...

Starting a new policy this afternoon: the comment feature is getting turned off. If anyone wants to e-mail me at theknightshift@gmail.com, I will read you comment there and choose whether or not to edit the post to include your remarks.

Wish I didn’t have to do this, but over the past several days this blog has attracted – in addition to plenty of good and sincere readers – way too many idiots. One of them, claiming to be a Marine stationed in Washington D.C., resorted to posting threats of murder after finding himself on the losing end of a discussion. I doubt that he was a real Marine: all the ones I’ve known weren’t hot-heads. They’re also a smart enough bunch that they can think for themselves: they have to be. This one didn’t have an original thought in his head. And a real Marine wouldn’t threaten violence or ...

Have a few things to do this afternoon but to kill time while working on other projects I flicked through some TV channels to see if anything good was on (hardly ever watch TV, truth be known, apart from “The Simpsons”, “Smallville”, “Powerpuff Girls” and “Johnny Bravo” on Cartoon Network, and the Hitler… I mean, History Channel).

Lo and behold, right now HBO is running 2001: A Space Odyssey.

I’ve seen this dozens of times over the years since I was ten years old. It’s been out since 1968.

Can anybody please tell me what the hell is the plot of this movie?!?

I mean, what STORY is being told here??? Big black brick makes apes throw bones in the air, followed by big black brick hurting some dudes’ ears on the moon, followed by big black brick making a computer go murderously nuts before said big black brick ...