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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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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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The third Bob White Birder Murder is now in the hands of my publisher, with a tentative release date of next September. Several years ago, I went on a Minnesota Birding Weekend led by birding expert Kim Eckert to Fillmore County, and immediately recognized how it would make a great setting for a murder mystery. The result is this third adventure, titled "A Bobwhite Killing." I had a blast writing it, even though it required me to do some heavy-duty research about the impact of ATVs on the environment and the geology of southeastern Minnesota. It's kind of funny in a way - when I was in high school I loved to read and write research papers, but I figured there wasn't much of a market for that skill. You ...more...