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Powerball retirement plan just another lost cause
Posted Monday, May 20, at 12:54 PM The fact that I am back at my desk today, typing on my trusty, crusty Mac keyboard can only mean one thing -- my ingenious Powerball retirement fund plan somehow went awry over the weekend. Didn't win the $590 million jackpot Saturday night. Haven't bought a private island, perfected a new margarita recipe, adopted an unlisted telephone number or put Alan Dershowitz on legal retainer...
Take your senses to the movies Going to the movies has certainly changed. I'm not just talking about the $9.50 ticket price to get in or the $7.50 popcorn-and-coke combo. Or even filmmakers' fascination with zombies and vampires and everything else dead. Nope, I'm talking about the in-the-dark movie-going experience...
Wake me when it's time for the wrath of Winter Storm Khan If you're reading this, and it's after 3:11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 21, then the Mayans were wrong and we can get on with the important things in life. Like naming winter storms. Yes, naming winter storms. It's all apparently the doing of The Weather Channel, and the fine folks there are trying to convince us that the current winter storm rumbling across Indiana and the upper Midwest is Draco...
Breaking news, and TV gets it right As a journalist and a media consumer myself, one of my biggest complaints with television news has always been its liberal interpretation of what qualifies as "breaking news." Other than an almost fatalist fascination with turning every sprinkle or snow flurry into a "weather event" in order to ballyhoo their "storm team," TV stations' definition of breaking news leaves the most to be desired...
With all the recent advancements in digital photography and nearly every cell phone on the planet now capable of capturing still photos and video, it continues to amaze me that every single shot of the Loch Ness Monster is blurry and dark. Every photo of a reported Sasquatch looks like it was taken at midnight with a Kodak Brownie camera by someone more nervous than Don Knotts...
A few years back, I adopted a puppy from the Humane Society. We called him Dunston. The naming process proved quite easy actually. Not long before that the Chicago Cubs had one of most athletically intriguing players I've ever seen, a shortstop named Shawon Dunston...
On Sunday afternoon, Chicago Cub legend Ron Santo will be inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, N.Y. Cub fans everywhere should be clicking their heels that the Hall finally opened its door for one of the greatest third basemen of all time. Underscore "should be." For Ron Santo should have been in the Hall of Fame long ago...
Raise some money, raise some kids According to a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture -- those same folks who count our pork bellies and bushels of corn -- raising a child is officially far from a financial breeze in 2012. Oh, really. Well, who'd have thought ... The USDA says a middle-income family with a child born in 2011 can expect to spend about $234,900 for food, shelter and other necessities to raise that child until he or she is 17 years old...
Listen to your mother, for this is strange Strange things seem to be haunting me. First a little old lady in the car beside me in the bank parking lot rolls down her window and frustratedly asks me why her car won't start (little does she realize she might as well be asking me a calculus question, for the Shell Answer Man I am not)...
Wait'll next year Okay, so who predicted the horrible, terrible, very bad winter of 2011-12 ... the Mayans? In the wee small hours of Tuesday morning, as winter turned into spring 2012, we are in the midst of record-breaking warmth. It's been 80 degrees in Indiana. 80 degrees!...
If there can be any redeeming value in not being able to sleep because of a cold, it's that it can give you license to snuggle under the covers and watch some late-night TV. That's where I found myself the other night, flipping channels until I ran across a Biography offering about the story behind the making of "The Silence of the Lambs."...
That's the way the cookies crumble The other night about 10 or 12 of us were winding down in our usual Friday evening location -- the comfy back room at Putnam Inn in Greencastle. That's when two cute little Girl Scouts (Brownies, I assume) popped in and quickly sold us about $35 in cookies, the way I calculate it...
When the pro football gods decided the 2012 Super Bowl would be played at Indianapolis, conventional wisdom never would have predicted the potential match-ups we have before us. With Super Bowl Sunday just two weeks away and a couple of interesting NFL games this weekend, the match-ups are made for Indianapolis, even without the Indianapolis Colts (a 2-14 record won't get you very far)...
First off, I'm a firm believer that animals know a heck of a lot more about nature and weather than a dozen Willard Scotts or Al Rokers. Remember all those stories from the 2004 tsunami? The ones where animals -- everything from mice to elephants -- inexplicably to us began migrating inland because they knew something was wrong where the sea met the shore?...
A circus act, complete with Madonna Hank Williams Jr. may no longer be ready for some football but apparently Madonna still is. Go figure ... After months of speculation, the National Football League has finally confirmed that Madonna, 12 years short of achieving senior citizen status, will bring her tired old act to Indianapolis for the Super Bowl XLVI halftime show on Sunday, Feb. 5. That's so '80s...
Did you ever wonder ...? Did you ever wonder ... if there isn't a little Andy Rooney in all of us? It was easy to pretend to dislike dear old Andy or to dismiss his trivial pursuits in the name of journalism. And certainly he seemed so un-cool that nobody under 50 could possibly pretend to listen a word he was saying, could they?...
Rumor mill grinds to a halt on 231 Ah, you have to love the way the rumor mill operates around here. No sooner did a set of traffic counters appear the other day on North Jackson Street (aka U.S. 231) than unfounded rumors began to swirl. Three counters were placed between the courthouse square and the viaduct at the edge of Greencastle. ...
Talk about something fishy Used to have a strict no-pet rule around my house. No cats, no dogs, no gerbils, no fish. But I was always a sucker for a good bet. Like the day daughter Nicole begged and pleaded and whined and cried about adopting one of the kittens the McKees had discovered in their garage on Walker Lane...
Hurricane names in the eye of the storm Dora's out exploring Acapulco. Bret is in The Caribbean. No, Bret's out of The Caribbean. Now he's back ... apparently he'll decide later on where he's going. And yo, Adrian has already made a rocky visit to the Pacific. But we're not talking about a cartoon explorer, a washed-up NFL quarterback or Rocky Balboa's ex...
No joy in Mudville, the Casey jury has struck out There was something so strangely fitting that I was standing in Burger King, waiting on a Whopper, when the Casey Anthony verdict came down Tuesday afternoon. Fast food justice, methinks. Granted, I knew the case had gone to the jury, but I really had no intention of tuning in live to see justice served up like a stale baloney sandwich. If revenge is a dish best served cold, suffice it to say a miscarriage of justice is best served by Oscar Mayer...
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A native of Chicago and a graduate of the University of Missouri, Eric Bernsee has enjoyed residing in Greencastle for more than 25 years. Years of consuming McDonald's iced teas, Dairy Castle flurries and Marvin's GCBs have helped make him the man he is today.
Hot topics Powerball retirement plan just another lost cause(0 ~ 11:55 AM, May 20)
Take your senses to the movies
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Breaking news, and TV gets it right
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