STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC dated for spring 2011

What is perhaps the most anticipated computer game is going to be a bit longer in finally arriving. BioWare confirmed today that Star Wars: The Old Republic will be released sometime in the spring of 2011. It was fall of 2008 when BioWare announced that it was developing the massively-multiplayer online RPG.Some people are saying this is too long a time to wait for this...

Read More

Miep Gies, protector of Anne Frank's family, has passed away

The second bestselling nonfiction book of all time - surpassed only by the Bible - owes its publication to this fine lady...Miep Gies and her husband Jan were the Dutch couple who hid Otto Frank and his family in an Amsterdam office building's secluded annex from 1942 to 1944. For more than two years, Miep and Jan Gies smuggled food and other provisions to the Franks and...

Read More

Federal health care will violate First Amendment on religious grounds

Old Order Mennonites - more popularly known as the Amish - will be exempted from being required to have health insurance if the so-called "health care reform" going through the House and Senate passes. According to the above-linked story in the Watertown Daily Times out of New York state, there's a "religious conscience" clause that allows Amish and other religious groups to opt-out of the mandated insurance.How does this not run afoul of the First...

Read More

Needed: Humble leaders, not confident ones

Michael Hyatt has written an intriguing essay on leadership over at his blog. As Hyatt puts it, we are wrong to seek leaders who are confident in their own abilities and knowledge, when instead we should find leaders who can and will admit that they don't have complete understanding and are far more humble because of it. Hyatt cites the example of Joseph Hooker during the American Civil War..."Fighting Joe Hooker" was a major general in the Union...

Read More

Woman declared dead by government must prove she's still alive

And just think: these are the same people who might soon be in charge of our health care!"I'm not dead yet! I don't want to go on the cart!"Terri Thompson of Maynardville, Tennessee has been classified as "dead" by the government, because she has successfully fought off a disease for most of her life in defiance of every prognosis by her physicians. Thompson had been told...

Read More

First trailer for THE A-TEAM

I gotta say something here: already I'm sold on Quinton "Rampage" Jackson playing B.A. Baracus for this movie. Judging by the trailer he's not trying to imitate Mr. T and that's a good thing! Mr. T is one of those unique people that, you just can't get away with trying to channel. I'm totally down with Jackson doing his own thing with the character.With that noted, I'll also say that The A-Team is officially marked as my first "must-see" movie...

Read More

Choices...

I'm considering right now whether to......do what is needed of me, or pursue an opportunity for my own happiness....be here for my family and friends, or be another place and possibly do something greater with the very best of what my family and friends have given me in my life....wait for God to show me what He needs of me, or take a leap of faith and let Him make of it what He will.Is there a right way or a wrong way to choose at all? One of my...

Read More

I finally saw THE ROAD

And I didn't have to drive all the way to northern Virginia to catch it, either!It's playing in Greensboro at the Grande in Friendly Center. A few days ago fellow blogger Steven Glaspie and I caught it. He hasn't read the book. I read Cormac McArthy's novel twice this past summer and ever since have been dying to see the film adaptation starring Viggo Mortensen as the...

Read More

Scientists turn wood into bone

The picture on the left shows what used to be a piece of rattan wood. It's now almost exactly identical to human bone tissue, after a battery of treatments thunked-up by some brilliant Italian scientists. It's as strong as real bone material, and what's more it transplants much better than current bone replacement procedures and is porous enough for blood and nervous tissue...

Read More

Pornography by way of U.S. Government and two clicks of Photoshop

Need another reason to hate Transportation Security Administration (or as I call 'em "Thousands Slacking Around")? No thanks to the new "backscatter" virtual strip search machines that Janet Napolitano wants to put into more airports, the United States government will soon be the world's largest producer of pornographic images.Here's a pic that's up on Drudge Report right...

Read More

Let's give a hearty welcome to Simon and his new blog SI-NAPSES!

Once again, your friend and humble narrator is deeply honored to have somehow played a part in inspiring others to enter the blogosphere. This time it's Simon, "a 30-something office worker from Hampshire, England... but that's not the real me!" Simon has just started up the very cleverly-named Si-Napses! And he's already hit the ground running with a review of Assassin's...

Read More

Happy 75th Birthday to Elvis Presley!

Seventy-five years ago today, Elvis Presley was born in a tiny house in Tupelo, Mississippi.Happy Birthday to "The King", wherever he may be...

Read More

I'd better return

Things are about to get crazy.And I found what I went off looking for anyway. Well, kinda. It's gonna require a leap of faith in a manner of speaking. But one that I'm pretty sure that I'm ready to take ...

Read More

Off for awhile

I'm on a quest, of sorts. Will see y'all when I see y...

Read More

Review of DOCTOR WHO Christmas/New Years special "The End of Time"

"I don't want to go!"Good (Time) Lord... it's been ages since I've done a write-up about Doctor Who! The last time one appeared on this blog was when "The Next Doctor" Christmas special aired twelve months ago.But no way was I gonna miss posting thoughts about the final adventure of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor...Thankfully, BBC America aired "The End of Time" Part 1...

Read More

Wanted fugitive found hiding inside WORLD OF WARCRAFT

Whatever the heck that thing is you see on the right ('cuz I don't play World of Warcraft) that's the on-screen persona of one Alfred Hightower, an American citizen who's been wanted since 2007 for drug dealing. But when he heard the fuzz was onto him Hightower jumped across the border and set up shop in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.Hightower didn't leave World of Warcraft however....

Read More

Matthew Federico attempts "The Year of the 365 Movies"

Fellow blogger, good friend and unique character Matthew Federico (who calls his site "A Sane Man of an Insane World") has vowed to watch one movie each day throughout 2010. So to chronicle his effort he has created another blog called, appropriately, The Year of the 365 Movies. The first one that Matthew has viewed and commented upon is 1941's Citizen Kane: considered by...

Read More