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EDIT  10/09/2026 12:55 AM EST:  Why not?

I think that taking a stand against antisemitism certainly counts toward doing good.

Here is the post that I had taken down a few days ago:

 

I debated about whether to post this.  Truth be told apart from some mad comment left on a previous post I’d forgotten about Connor Heggie, the owner of Facebook group The SW Geek Hub and the extremist LGBT stalker who accused me of bigotry because of my convictions about the homosexual lifestyle and how it is not only wrong, but it’s dangerous.

There have been too many great things in my life lately than to be concerned about a twit and his fellow goons on Facebook.  Things like new friendship, well-paying new job, new car, my book selling well and I’ve begun writing another… God has been very good to me in the past ...

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Last month the operator of the “SW Geek Hub” group on Facebook went up and down the Intertubes accusing me of bigotry, because I refuse to endorse and condone the LGBT agenda.  I called him out on it, told him that he was being the true fascist in this matter.  Here is the post I made then about it, which attracted the attention of probably no more than ten or so of his “mates”, who also joined in with their disdain for my refusing to join the forces of “Pride”.  I left their comments up. I want the world to see what kind of ugliness rests beneath the velvet glove of “tolerance” and “diversity”.

 
This person made all the accusations.  He claimed moral superiority.  “SW Geek Hub” has a history of attacking anyone who doesn’t measure up to his standards.  He has even “doxxed” the information about those who
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Update 07/21/2026:  A reader has provided plenty of information about “SW Geek Hub”…

His real name is Connor Heggie.  He’s about age 34 or 35.  He lives in Newcastle upon Tyne in England.  Here is his Facebook page.

For all his ravings, he is really a very sad individual.  He has no one in his life apart from people down at “the pub” which includes Front Street Tap House and occasionally the Hobbit Pub.  One of his Star Wars groups on Facebook was shut down for impersonating another page.

At one point he claimed to have run for office himself.  Personally, I doubt it.  He comes across as too much a severe screaming nutcase.  He’s especially fixated on finding “bigotry” and “fascism” among real Star Wars fans.

Our guy Connor will probably never marry.  He will never write a book.  He will never truly see the ...

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Regarding Murthy v. Missouri: the Supreme Court decision yesterday about government coercing social media companies to censor users’ activity based on political content.  SCOTUS decided that the plaintiffs had no standing and dismissed the lawsuit.

This seems like a colossal victory for the government and social media companies.  HOWEVER…

The case was *not* dismissed.  Today’s ruling dealt with the temporary injunction in the case, not the case itself.  The case was REMANDED, back down the legal chain.  It could still come before the high court where the plaintiffs can better frame their arguments with solid evidence of coercion and censorship.

I believe that such a thing is not only possible, it is almost guaranteed to happen.

Twitter, or X as it’s called now, is going to be VERY interesting to watch as it pertains to the case.  When Murthy v. Missouri was first filed it was confronting ...

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In what might be the most hilarious case of unintended consequences in recent memory, today Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has ruled that President Donald Trump was wrong to have blocked users from his Twitter feed… which inadvertently has officially designated Twitter (and by extension Facebook and YouTube and other social media outlets) to be common carriers like the telephone system!


In a 75-page ruling, Judge Buchwald declared that Twitter was a “designated public forum” on which Trump could not discriminate against selected readers by blocking their accounts. “This case requires us to consider whether a public official may, consistent with the First Amendment, ‘block’ a person from his Twitter account in response to the political views that person has expressed, and whether the analysis differs because that public official is the President of the United States,” Buchwald said ...

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If you were to timewarp to some day many decades hence (I hope, gulp!) and find me about to depart this moral realm for the Great Beyond, and of all the questions you could ask me the one thing you would want to know is “What were your favorite websites of all time?”…

Even then, one of the top three would be WWWF Grudge Match: that hilarious page from the earliest days of widespread accessible Internet featuring epic battles between Mister T and Mister Clean, a Rottweiler versus a Rottweiler’s weight in chihuahas, John McClane versus the Death Star, and that immortal bout between English Soccer Hooligans and the French Army.  Grudge Match ran uninterrupted in a few iterations between 1995 and 2005, but its impact on Internet humor will ever live on.

Thing is… since 2005 there’s been so much crazy new stuff come about that’s just ...

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I’m a writer.  It’s incumbent to my nature to put down my thoughts and observations, either for personal review later on or for appreciation by others so that they may come away from the time they have just spent with a little understanding and enlightenment.  At least, that is what I try to gain from anything from others that I take the time to read.  Writing is how I contribute to the larger world, and I have to be honest about what it is that I am writing about.  Regardless of how it reflects on me.

So I have no real problem with documenting my more severe bipolar episodes.  Friends on Facebook know, perhaps too well, how my writing there reflects the state of my moods.  A little over a year ago however I began to more clinically… or at least as is possible to do with such things… document ...

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The Knight Shift, Facebook, like meAt long last, this blog has a bona-fide presence on Facebook!  It’s been up for awhile now but I wanted to make some posts on it to sorta “furnish the place” before going public with it

Anyhoo, the URL thingy is facebook.com/theknightshiftblog (pretty clever, huh?).  The Facebook site’s primary function will be to share posts that I make here on the blog.  But I also have plans to use it for other neat stuff: anything from previews for coming attractions to emergency posts from the field when full-blown blogging isn’t an option, to… dunno, maybe a recipe or two.  I aim to have the place as hopping with seemingly random iotas of information, thoughts and wild ideas as this blog is.

Okay well… “like” me, why don’cha? 🙂 ...

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Four years ago I made a solemn vow to myself, and I have kept to it. Not only that but my conscience has rested much better because of it…

I pledged to not vote for any candidate for public office who runs even a single negative campaign ad against an opponent.

I’m telling y’all right now that the ballot I cast in 2008 had a lot of wide open empty spaces. But the candidates that I didn’t vote for, it can’t be said that they didn’t earn that. Either because I believed they were not suitable for office on their own merits, or because they violated the terms of my vow.

Look folks, seriously: if a candidate spends millions of dollars attacking his or her opponent instead of telling us “This is what I believe and this is how I want to serve you…”, why should we trust them with ...

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Read all about it here.

If you joined one of the many Facebook groups that have sprung up to get this to happen in the past month, give yourself a pat on the back.

Maybe this is what it takes to get something done in the world today: just start up a Facebook group, like “Let’s See if this African Dung Beetle can get more fans than Glenn Beck!”

(For the record, I’ve not once listened to Glenn Beck or watched him on television, and only know what he looks like from the covers of his books.)

Sorta like that “electronic town hall” that Ross Perot suggested back in 1992. Who’da thunk that he was foreseeing Facebook? 🙂...

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