God have mercy on us.
Alisa LaPolt Snow, a lobbyist representing Planned Parenthood in Florida ("Planned Parenthood"? Now there's a contradiction in terms...) testified before that state's legislators this week that babies who are born after an attempted abortion should be killed at the discretion of the mother and her doctor.
Killing a baby. After it has been born.
Back in the old days, we used to call that "infanticide". Something...
Friday, March 29, 2013
The Shroud of Turin? There's an app for that!
Before I saw Raiders of the Lost Ark in the theater (yeah I was that young: it was a weird weird childhood) and got hooked on archaeology, the Shroud of Turin had grasped my fascination. All I knew at the time was that it might have been the cloth that Jesus was wrapped in after His death and that somehow, His picture got transferred into the material. I've been...
The thirtieth anniversary of Strategic Defense Initiative
It was thirty years ago this week that President Ronald Reagan gave a historic speech proposing, for the first time, a space-based anti-ballistic missile system for the United States. The plan, once developed, would utilize ground and space-based weaponry to blast apart incoming nuclear missiles. The basic premise was an array of missile-launching satellites...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
This week's Tammy Tuesday's got some pearly whites
I've had Tammy for ten months now. That's plenty of time to chronicle a lot of her but one thing that keeps eluding me is a perfect shot of this baby's teeth. She had those needle-like daggers that pups always have at first but ever since she lost her puppy teeth she's grown in some positivalutely gnarly chompers.
Well, it's not ideal by far, but this really is the best...
Monday, March 25, 2013
"This Sorrowful Life": Thoughts on THE WALKING DEAD penultimate Season 3 ep
For the record, I wanna state that I just knew what Glenn was doing when he went walking along the fence! Let's hope he thought well enough to sanitize that thing...
(Guess we're gonna see a spate of The Walking Dead-inspired weddings now, huh?)
There's been a pattern this late in Season 3: seems that AMC's The Walking Dead has been oscillating between "unbelievably...
Awright, raise your hands...
...how many of y'all didn't have your NCAA Basketball Tournament brackets thoroughly broken after this weekend?I'm not much up to speed on sports of late. But watching the agony from brackets getting busted in full gory on my Facebook front page has been pure comedy gold!Even though I don't have a dog in this hunt (I would have rooted for my alma mater Elon if it had gotten into the Big Dance for the first time) I have to say: from the getgo this...
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Angry Wife Billboard Update: Is it a restaurant publicity stunt?
The talk of the area since yesterday morning has been this billboard on Battleground Avenue in Greensboro (North Carolina). In big bold letters on a wrathful red field it reads thusly: "Michael- GPS Tracker - $250, Nikon Camera with zoom lens - $1600, Catching my LYING HUSBAND and buying this billboard with our investment account - Priceless. Tell Jessica you're moving in!...
STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS has a new trailer!
Less than two months before this baby erupts across our peepers and I can't wait!Whether he turns out to be Khan or not, Benedict Cumberbatch has already sold me as being a classic Trek villain.Does anyone else think that the Starfleet war room looks a lot like the one in Dr. Strangelove? Here's praying that Star Trek Into Darkness doesn't end with Kirk riding a torpedo while whooping and hollerin'...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Do you think Jennifer is angry at Michael?
An actual LED billboard this afternoon on Battleground Avenue in Greensboro, North Carolina...
Tip o' the hat and credit due to journalist Chad Tucker of Fox 8 WGHP, who posted this on Facebook a short while a...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Frank Thornton - AKA Captain Peacock - has passed away
Found out some sad news yesterday: Frank Thornton, an amazing British actor who shone in every part he played but will forever be most remembered as the unflappable Captain Stephen Peacock on the BBC's legendary comedy series Are You Being Served?, has passed away at the age of 92.
(Does this mean that Peacock is now spending an eternity listening to Mrs. Slocombe prattling...
It's double the dachshund on this Tammy Tuesday!
Want more wiener dog?!? Tammy is a more fortunate pup than many. Ya see, my cousin nearby wound up with Tammy's litter-mate Sassy. And because of that they've had plenty of occasion to romp and play together.
So here is Tammy (with the red collar) and her sister Sassy, along with my cousin's two children. Hey, it's two cute dachshunds and two cute...
The Iraq War is ten years old today
George W. Bush is the worst President in American history. In less lucid moments (mostly when hopped-up on allergy medicine) I would write that Barack Obama has been far far worse. But there would have not been Barack Obama in the White House had Bush the Lesser been a competent leader.
I spent more time than I cared to during the Bush years chronicling and commenting...
Could a Cyprus-style banks robbery happen in the U.S.?
This past weekend was spent semi-unplugged. Heck I didn't know that Miami had beaten UNC for the ACC Basketball Tournament title until late last night! Since all that mess was happening in Greensboro I drove a hunnerd miles the opposite direction on 220 to do ballroom dancing and general geek-ery with my girlfriend.
But even so, I have been following the mess in Cyprus, where the government is poisoned to confiscate 10% of everyone's...
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Americans according to North Korea: "Buying guns to kill each other" and drinking coffee made from snow...
There is some question about whether or not this is real. Having watched numerous propaganda films made behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, my gut tells me that it's legit. That, and because this video does have that "Dear Leader/all others are inferior" tone which is a hallmark of North Korea's regime.
It's allegedly a propaganda video made by the North Korean government depicting life of the downtrodden proles in the United States. ...
Towns Without Pity: Modder proves EA is LYING about SIMCITY always-online!
So... that whole thing about Electronic Arts' new SimCity requiring a constant Internet connection to play? EA told us that it was needed because most of the game's processing takes place on EA's own servers. In other words: the official company line is that it is not possible at all to play SimCity locally on your PC or laptop. And despite the horde of connection problems that players were made to endure throughout the past week,...
North Carolina Beers: A good blog about Tarheel brew
Please note: I am not a beer drinker. In fact, it's very rare that I'll drink alcohol at all. There's nothing I hold against those who enjoy it (in moderation 'course). And I know next to nothing about what makes a good beer. The first time I tried drinking any, it was in Belgium in 1993. To this day I still cannot adequately describe how dark...
Happy Birthday to Michael Caine!
The Knight Shift and its proprietor would like to wish a very wonderful Happy Birthday today to Michael Caine - one of the finest and most versatile actors ever - on the occasion of his turning 80 years young!
The above image is from Caine's 2009 film Harry Brown. If you have not seen it yet, I heartily recommend it. It's definitely one of the better movies...
