Archive for Trust Me

New evidence points to looming disaster

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Chaska, MN (DWI) – Local investigators have gathered unmistakable evidence that a natural disaster of epic proportions is only weeks away, and it won’t be appearing on your neighborhood movie screen.

Instead, it’s going to happen in neighborhoods all over the world.

“The effects of global warming are nothing compared to this baby,” said Dr. Steven Moron of the National Daylight Monitoring Center. “We are talking about complete geophysical, biological, and economic meltdown here. I don’t want to cause a panic, but our data shows we have barely eight weeks left of life as we know it. The Big Lights-Out is on its way.”

The Big Lights-Out is the term coined by Moron to describe the cataclysmic event that he and his team of investigators are now predicting as imminent: total darkness.

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Feeling the burn

Monday, November 16th, 2009

For years, researchers have been insisting that Americans have become increasingly violent because they watch excessive violence portrayed on television shows. Since my own TV viewing is probably less than an hour a month, I have never felt like I had anything to contribute to this debate.

In the last few weeks, however, I have been following an exercise show on FitTV almost every day in hopes of dropping a few pounds and tightening my glutes. Based on this experience, I can now say without hesitation that watching television has, indeed, made me more violent.

“Let’s do some cardio boxing!” the TV exercise guru shouts at me. “Ready? Go! Jab, jab, cross! Jab, jab, cross! Jab, jab, cross!”

I do the boxing moves and it feels pretty darn good.

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2012 Doomsday? I don’t think so.

Monday, October 26th, 2009

The world is full of loonies.

A few years ago, it was Y2K. All kinds of folks were warning us to stockpile bottled water and buy a portable generator to keep our electric appliances running when the world shut down at the turn of the century because of a vicious computer glitch. Transportation was going to fall into shambles, disease would be rampant, and to keep warm, we’d have to all start wearing blankets and burn furniture. And we wouldn’t get any mail, either. ...more...