THE SHELBY INDEPENDENT

By Chuck Thompson | The Sunday Column OPINION / HUMOR — Recently, beaches across America have made the news for their ‘Spring Break’ uncouthness. Rowdy brawling drunk college kids acting a fool, having a great time, and ruining one favorite beach spot after another. It happens every year.   Maybe it’s worse and maybe we’re all just getting older, but after looking back at some old news clips, there has always been news from college spring breaks where coeds who are briefly m

Chuck Thompson | The Sunday Column OPINION / HUMOR – First, you have to understand that while you’re reading this on Sunday (or later) during Icemegeddon, I am writing this on Friday night, eating all my winter storm snacks and typing away, having no clue more than the weatherman on what would actually happen by Sunday. As a friend mentioned to me today, "Being a weatherman is the only job where you can be wrong most of the time and not get fired." By the time you read this.

The names of restaurants have always annoyed me. I don’t know why, that’s just how I’m wired.

Mondays remind me of The Gremlins