For real.

I’ve NO idea how he pulled it off (and quite frankly I’d be more than a little scared to know, given this guy’s connections: Mossad and MI-6 should look into recruiting him) but my friend Josh Griffin has somehow seen a roughcut of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. He’s set to deliver the goods on what he thinks of it so far in his final post as editor of TheForce.net this coming Monday, November 1st. A few tidbits have leaked out on this thread at the TFN message boards (registration required to view) but in a nutshell, Josh thinks that Episode III is going to totally redeem the prequels and George Lucas as an epic storyteller, if anyone had doubted that during the past few years. Want a teaser of what we can expect this coming May? Swipe your mouse over the following “Inviso-text” ...

Take a good long look at this picture…

That’s a still from a video (Quicktime format) from the mid-1990s, apparently when George W. Bush was running for governor of Texas. He calls it his “one-fingered victory salute.” Notice how much he smirks and snickers at making the gesture.

Maybe somebody needs to tell born-again Christian George W. Bush that holding up the middle finger is the indication that someone should go to Hell.

I’d like to report that this might have been something in his “wilder, younger” days that he might stand to be forgiven for. But looks like old habits die hard as this photo reveals, taken after Bush was already President of the United States…

Maybe Texas, or Alabama, or Kennebunkport, or whereever he hails from has a different sense of civility, but growing up I always heard that anyone who sticks up his middle finger like ...

The story got around. More than I was expecting. With five days left ’til the election, might as well move on to other things instead of letting this blog go stale from lingering on that one lil’ story.

More fun stuff, I promise (okay, *maybe* some more stuff about the election too)....

…and that’s to keep the Nazis from REALLY coming to power.

Carl Worden has a really good piece at The Sierra Times about why he’s no longer affiliated with the Republican Party: because the fascists have taken over. Lest there be any question of his character…

I’ve been a registered Republican since I pulled my first lever in a voting booth, and I’ve voted as a loyal Republican for Republican candidates consistently every year. I am 55 years of age. I am considered a right-wing Christian conservative and strict constitutionist who knows the Framers of the Constitution expected strict adherence to that original document unless and until it is amended.

You don’t get much more conservative and constitutionally-minded than I am, and that is why I just cast my Oregon vote-by-mail ballot for Democrat John Kerry as the next president of the United States. So did my wife — and

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Seven days ago I posted The Night George W. Bush Ordered A Thug To Tell Me To “GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!”, my account of what happened at the Republican rally during the Presidential Debate at Wake Forest University in 2000. No need to recap all of that here: everyone is more than welcome to read it for themselves (though I had no idea until later just how long the thing was. My editor at our student newspaper in college was right: “Chris Knight you are a wordy wordy monkey” 🙂

See that counter at the bottom of the page? Last Monday it was reading 420 hits since I installed it about four weeks ago. At this moment it’s reading 1,703. The only bit of self-promotion that I openly did for it was a post to TheForce.net’s message boards that same evening. Thirteen people finding it seemed realistic… ...

This has been something I’ve been saying would be posted for the past month now. I had it in mind to post today since it would be the anniversary of the incident, then said a few days ago I’d do it before then. As things turned out I was so busy over the weekend that I didn’t have time to collect my thoughts enough for it. So now, I get to share it on the 11th after all.

And if any of George W. Bush’s supporters from Karl Rove on down to the lowliest bootlick want to try to destroy me on this: “bring ’em on.” I’ve already written that I’m ready to admit to anything that they could throw against me for my doing this. They can attack and try to destroy me all they want, I don’t care: I’m going to tell this story as best I ...

I chose the final words from Superman #75 in November 1992 (the issue that saw the Man of Steel falling after saving Metropolis from Doomsday) for the title ‘cuz… well, seemed all too appropriate.

It’s being reported on Drudge Report and a few others at this hour that Christopher Reeve – who made us really believe that a man could fly when he was tapped to play Superman in 1978 – has died. Here’s what Drudge has atop his page right now:

12:30:02 ET: Veteran Hollywood reporter Nikki Finke has learned that actor Christopher Reeve is dead, according to sources close to the actor. He died suddenly Sunday. News of his death has not been reported publicly yet. His family will make an announcement Monday at the earliest. Reeve was just mentioned Friday in the second live presidential debate by John Kerry. Noting he was a friend of the paralysed

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One for the “Totally Useless But Still Cool Bits of Trivia” files: our friends at TheForce.net reported that as of yesterday (October 10, 2004) it has been exactly 10,000 days since the first Star Wars movie (now referred to as Episode IV: A New Hope) debuted in theaters. Ten thousand days of Star Wars. Eight-hundred sixty-four million seconds give or take. Probably more dollars than that in action figure royalties alone that “Uncle George” has raked into the bank....

Twice in the past few weeks I’ve hinted about having a story about George W. Bush. The first thing I wrote was a long essay on why my motives have to be pure in sharing what happened: that it can’t be out of anger or malice or spite. Either at him or the cronies he sent. Then it was another post about if I were to do this, that I should be prepared for repercussions from his followers and maybe even his campaign (again). In that one I made it known that if anyone has a charge to bring up against me, especially with anything that I’ve written online, that I’m going to own up to it. I know I’ve made mistakes… but I’ll be darned if that stops me from publishing the things that have been on my mind for some time. Before going any further, I had to ...

Just saw this listed and told my wife that I gotta watch. Doctor Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb has to rank as one of the funniest satires of all time, if not the darkest. What an amazing cast: Peter Sellers (in three roles), George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens, and a very young James Earl Jones headline this scathing (but hilarious) indictment of the Cold War mentality. I watched it for the first time during my first year of college as a critique for a history class and wound up searching high and low for a widescreen VHS version (there was one, by the way) ‘cuz I wanted to have it as complete as possible. Heh-heh… I must have ended up with the largest collection of widescreen movies on videotape in the days before DVD. Anyhoo, it’s a classic so catch it ...