AUTHOR: Dave Sypniewski DATE: Monday, October 24, 2005 ----- BODY: Indiana always was a backwards place to live. Some things never change. One thing is going to change this weekend however, because Sunday at 2 AM most of us will be turning back the clock an hour while the folks in Indiana will be as confused as the grade schooler trying to find the answer to zero multiplied by zero. Indiana is has become the "State of Confusion" and that would also be a good slogan for next year's license plates. In "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn", Kahn told Admiral Kirk that "time is a luxury you don't have" In Indiana, all they have is time to raise a ruckus over what time zone they're in! DO YOU BELIEVE IT??!! This coming weekend, Hoosiers will awaken early or late to find out they're wrong or the clocks in the house have gone kaputz. First of all, nothing would take place until 2006 if at all. Secondly, someone should tell these folks that making the whole state part of the Eastern Time Zone and going to work in Chicago doesn't mean your boss will try to squeeze an extra hour out of you. It also doesn't mean you'll have an extra hour when you get home to cut the grass or play catch with your kids. No, you're going to LOSE an hour. I agree that the dividing lines of time zones on the map look like someone with Parkinson's drew them in BUT, other states have the same problem too...they just don't make a big fuss over it! It will be a scene ripped out of "The Outer Limits" on Sunday morning in Indiana when not a single person will know what to do. I say, do what you want. Turn the clock behind or ahead an hour, or don't do it at all. Hey, these folks don't have anywhere to go anyway. Indiana is like a black hole anyway. Laws of Physics don't exist but, for some reason it's powerful magnetic force keeps pulling people from Illinois in. Ain't life grand? ...When George Clooney left ER several years ago, he flew right into the role of Batman. Since then, he's been working hard on all kinds of really, crappy, movies that people seem to enjoy seeing (except for "From Dusk Until Dawn" which I thought was his best) and paying lots of money to buy the DVD's. OK, Clooney has taken a lot of heat for being a bigshot because he supposedly picks and chooses the scripts that he believes fit him well. Uh, no comment. However, this nephew of the late Rosemary "Come on a my house" Clooney has a new flick about the life and times of of the late, great, newsman Edward R. Murrow titled "Goodnight and Good Luck". Murrow (shown above) was perhaps one of the creators of real journalism which was way ahead of it's time. Back when it was allowed, Murrow would sit behind the television newsdesk puffing on a Camel and reporting the news. He was also the innovator of field reporting where he would go "on location" to battlefield, fires, or whatever was considered a story. He later hosted a magazine style television show called "See it Now" -the only one of it's kind, and now the blueprint for "20/20", "60 Minutes", and "Dateline". I'm thrilled to death about the new movie considering I studied Murrow for four years in the late 80's. Camel Cigarettes even sponsored his show so, it should come as no surprise that Murrow died of lung cancer way before his time. I was thinking...had Murrow been alive and retired here in Chicago, turning on the news at night would have killed him. News in recent weeks has taken a back seat to "Fluff and no stuff" style reporting. He'd keel over watching ALL the local stations fight like buzzards over roadkill in their coverage of Sox baseball. Not just that but, leading a newscast with nothing but "fluff" better known as The World Series for 20 minutes and demoting news to being a "kicker" -Something that you normally see at the end of the newscast, like the squirrel in Michigan that waterski's. All the local stations should hang their heads in shame! They are all guilty! I have no idea what's been happening in the world for the past month. Yup, enough is enough already as Edward R. Murrow must be spinning in his grave. THAT'S the way I see things today! -------- Squealing Pig WORLDWIDE!: The "sands of time" and "...this would have killed him"

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Monday, October 24, 2005

The "sands of time" and "...this would have killed him"

Indiana always was a backwards place to live. Some things never change. One thing is going to change this weekend however, because Sunday at 2 AM most of us will be turning back the clock an hour while the folks in Indiana will be as confused as the grade schooler trying to find the answer to zero multiplied by zero. Indiana is has become the "State of Confusion" and that would also be a good slogan for next year's license plates. In "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn", Kahn told Admiral Kirk that "time is a luxury you don't have" In Indiana, all they have is time to raise a ruckus over what time zone they're in! DO YOU BELIEVE IT??!! This coming weekend, Hoosiers will awaken early or late to find out they're wrong or the clocks in the house have gone kaputz. First of all, nothing would take place until 2006 if at all. Secondly, someone should tell these folks that making the whole state part of the Eastern Time Zone and going to work in Chicago doesn't mean your boss will try to squeeze an extra hour out of you. It also doesn't mean you'll have an extra hour when you get home to cut the grass or play catch with your kids. No, you're going to LOSE an hour. I agree that the dividing lines of time zones on the map look like someone with Parkinson's drew them in BUT, other states have the same problem too...they just don't make a big fuss over it! It will be a scene ripped out of "The Outer Limits" on Sunday morning in Indiana when not a single person will know what to do. I say, do what you want. Turn the clock behind or ahead an hour, or don't do it at all. Hey, these folks don't have anywhere to go anyway. Indiana is like a black hole anyway. Laws of Physics don't exist but, for some reason it's powerful magnetic force keeps pulling people from Illinois in. Ain't life grand? ...When George Clooney left ER several years ago, he flew right into the role of Batman. Since then, he's been working hard on all kinds of really, crappy, movies that people seem to enjoy seeing (except for "From Dusk Until Dawn" which I thought was his best) and paying lots of money to buy the DVD's. OK, Clooney has taken a lot of heat for being a bigshot because he supposedly picks and chooses the scripts that he believes fit him well. Uh, no comment. However, this nephew of the late Rosemary "Come on a my house" Clooney has a new flick about the life and times of of the late, great, newsman Edward R. Murrow titled "Goodnight and Good Luck". Murrow (shown above) was perhaps one of the creators of real journalism which was way ahead of it's time. Back when it was allowed, Murrow would sit behind the television newsdesk puffing on a Camel and reporting the news. He was also the innovator of field reporting where he would go "on location" to battlefield, fires, or whatever was considered a story. He later hosted a magazine style television show called "See it Now" -the only one of it's kind, and now the blueprint for "20/20", "60 Minutes", and "Dateline". I'm thrilled to death about the new movie considering I studied Murrow for four years in the late 80's. Camel Cigarettes even sponsored his show so, it should come as no surprise that Murrow died of lung cancer way before his time. I was thinking...had Murrow been alive and retired here in Chicago, turning on the news at night would have killed him. News in recent weeks has taken a back seat to "Fluff and no stuff" style reporting. He'd keel over watching ALL the local stations fight like buzzards over roadkill in their coverage of Sox baseball. Not just that but, leading a newscast with nothing but "fluff" better known as The World Series for 20 minutes and demoting news to being a "kicker" -Something that you normally see at the end of the newscast, like the squirrel in Michigan that waterski's. All the local stations should hang their heads in shame! They are all guilty! I have no idea what's been happening in the world for the past month. Yup, enough is enough already as Edward R. Murrow must be spinning in his grave. THAT'S the way I see things today!

posted by Dave Sypniewski at Monday, October 24, 2005

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