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About a month ago I showed what I would look like as a character from The Simpsons. That pic was courtesy of The Simpsons Movie website.

Then Darth Larry spotted another site, this one a promotional one run by Burger King called Simpsonize Me, also a tie-in with the new movie. But with this “you as a Simpsons character” thingy, you upload an actual photograph of yourself and the website does most of the work for you. Then all you have to do is fine-tune it with a variety of mouths, noses etc.

(Is it just me or is Burger King running some of the best movie promo sites lately? Their gimmick for Revenge of the Sith a few years ago was downright … spooky.)

So I uploaded the photo I used for the newspaper ad from my school board campaign and after “tweaking” it a ...

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This has to be the biggest coup in the history of this blog. Yes, ladies and gentlemen it is true: this evening the absolute very last page of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was sent to The Knight Shift. This is it! This is how the entire saga ends for good. This is the most absolute toppest-top secret that J.K. Rowling has been sitting on for over ten years now.

If you DO NOT WANT TO BE SPOILED, you are advised to TURN BACK NOW!

I mean it!

MASSIVE HARRY POTTER SPOILERS AHEAD

You sure you want to know?

Okay, let it be on your own head. Don’t say that I didn’t warn you.

Here it is, the final page from the very last chapter of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:

“Is there anything you would like from the menu?” Rosmerta asked.

“Three bottles of butterbear and

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Since last night I have received numerous requests for a much larger version of the Ron Paul graphic that apes the poster for The Matrix (which also features some not-so-subtle commentary). Seems that some folks are wanting to make full-size posters of this…

If you need (or just plain lust for) a far larger version of this graphic, e-mail me at theknightshift@gmail.com with “Ron Paul Matrix poster” in the subject line and I will get this to you!...

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Remember the classic episode “A Piece of the Action” from the original Star Trek TV show? That was the one where Kirk and Spock beam down to the alien planet that had its entire culture based on 1920s Chicago mob wars. What happened was another Federation ship had come years earlier and accidentally left a book about the Chicago mobs behind and the aliens on this planet, being curious and innovative, re-engineered their world around what they learned from that book. It was a great episode with a lot of humor (and not entirely unplausible when you think about it).

Anyway, someone has taken the “A Piece of the Action” episode and turned it into a parody of The Sopranos intro! It’s also got a “Scientology” spoof commercial at the end. I think it’s one of the most hilarious things that I’ve ever seen on YouTube! Check out “The Spockranos”…...

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With apologies to Jimmy Webb and the late Richard Harris, but I just couldn’t resist writing this one. Inspired by events of the past few days…

“MacArthur Park 2007”

Originally written by Jimmy Webb and performed by Richard Harris

New words by Christopher Knight

Border is wide open for them girl
They’re starting to get bold
As they scream their Spanish chants
Now they incite a riot as they press
The government to bow down
To La Raza’s mad demands

MacArthur Park is burning in the dark
All those rubber bullets flying ’round
Gonzo’s hot to find someone to blame
This country just can’t take it
Illegals are going to break it
And we’ll never have America again
Oh noooooooo!

I can see unlawful immigrants
Fighting with the cops
Of Los Angeles P-D
Better put a stop to this right now or
They’ll be spreading from sea to shining sea

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If this is The Ronfather, does that mean its central character is “Ron” Corleone?

Someone called here yesterday to ask me about the Ron Price situation and I told this person that at no time have I “hated” the guy. Been disgusted with him? Certainly. But that’s a far cry from outright loathing his guts. At the same time, he’s doing wrong: both by staying on the Rockingham County Board of Education (in spite of being an admitted thief) and by this lawsuit against the Moores… which many here believe will be only the first in a series of retaliatory strikes against those on Price’s “enemies list”.

Bear in mind that at one point I was one of Price’s strongest supporters. I even offered to make a TV commercial for his campaign back during the election season… for free. You don’t do that for someone unless they’ve ...

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Gerald Witt has a write-up in today’s News & Record about the lawsuit that Ron Price has filed against Richard Moore (click here for more info on that). At the beginning of his story Witt makes mention of something that’s currently on Moore’s website and I couldn’t resist posting it here either for sake of posterity…

Political sniping going to court

By Gerald Witt
Staff Writer

WENTWORTH — Ronbo — a mash-up of Rambo and Rockingham County school board member Ron Price — greets visitors to Richard Moore’s Web site.

Moore, a local political pot-stirrer, independent publisher and unsuccessful 2006 school board candidate, doesn’t seem rattled by a slander and libel lawsuit Price filed against him last month claiming $140,000 in damages.

A copy of the complaint is on Moore’s site, next to the Ronbo photo: Price’s face on the body of John Rambo , a long-haired, tank-topped Vietnam

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