2014 In Film. | Ghost in the Machine

2014 In Film. | Ghost in the Machine

My #1 is GitM's #3, and I haven't seen his top 2 yet ...

It's the post I look forward to every year. (But I'm not accustomed to waiting until February, Mr. Murphy.) Need to whip your Netflix queue into shape? Look no further.

Some reactions to the #HobbyLobby decision ...

Disappointing but not unexpected.

Instead of composing an essay, I'm going let some pithy tweeters cover this for now ...

Time for women @ #HobbyLobby to file a Civil Rights Title VII complaint, as they treat women differently than men. #BankruptHobbyLobby
— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) June 30, 2014

Just joined that religion where you don't believe in paying parking tix or not urinating in bushes. Gonna be awesome! Thanks SCOTUS!
— Adam McKay (@GhostPanther) June 30, 2014

As we speak, corporate lawyers across America are preparing briefs explaining why OSHA regulations violate their religious beliefs. #SCOTUS
— Joshua McGee (@McGeekiest) June 30, 2014

there are literally people who think healthcare provided by your employer is a free courtesy provided by kind corporations
— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) June 30, 2014

The silver lining?

Democrats need women to vote, Hobby Lobby will deliver http://t.co/ESHSlLPMBi We may not have a SCt majority, but we have an American one
— Markos Moulitsas (@markos) June 30, 2014

Second verse, same as the first ... another day, another championship. #bleedblue #UConn

They've Been Flawless When It Counted The Most - Courant.com

Another front page devoted to a championship

This is the one we all kind of expected, not to take anything away from ND, but it would have been surprising if this UConn team had lost. Not unthinkable, not impossible, just ... so unlikely. And so, once again, UConn holds both championships at the same time, joining the 2003/2004 squads as the only others to accomplish the feat. 2004, what year, I remember it well because the first dual championships for UConn basketball were the same year the Red Sox brought home a championship for the first time in forever. Of course, the Sox've got a few more since, including 2013, so it feels a little greedy to hope they'll able to but a bow on 2014 as well.

Now we look forward to departing senior Stefanie Dolson in a dance-off with the President, maybe swinging by the Tonight Show -- I'm sure Jimmy Fallon got the memo -- and, back on the hardwoods, to Breanna Stewart returning for junior year. Yeah, she's only a sophomore.

Thanks in large part to Geno and the women's program, UConn is now 13-0 in NCAA championship games. The men have captured four in the last fifteen years. (That's sick, by the way.) I bet by tomorrow, if not already, Geno will be hard at work on getting the women's tenth next year.

It's good to be in Husky Nation. That is all.

Hooray for Olliewood!

UConn Beats Kentucky For National Title - Courant.com

Napier, Boatright, Giffey & co. got it done. Ugly game at times, but this tournament was more about the fight in the dog than the dogs in the fight and there was just no team as hungry, scrappy, *and* talented as these Huskies. Being well-coached had a lot to do with it as well.

Tonight, all eyes in Husky Nation turn to the women and their match-up against Notre Dame. We've got a leg in pot, dual championships have only ever been claimed by UConn programs. Let's do it again!

If I had $250 to spare, I'd get on the list for one of these electric motorcycles.

Lit Motors' C-1 electric motorcycle will stand up for itself:

So far, Kim and his team have developed an operating model of the C-1's flywheel-based stabilization system, along with a full-scale fiberglass mock-up of the vehicle itself. They are now working on a hand-built steel uni-bodied working prototype, which should reportedly be complete within about three months. Plans call for an initial run of production vehicles to be available at a price of about US$24,000 by late 2013, with that price going down to $16,000 once full production gets under way in 2014.