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81State Lotto Winners: Beware!
If you're ever lucky enough to win the Connecticut Lotto, don't quit your day job yet, or at least until you check the bottom line on your bank account. Lotto officials like to tout the top line figure, but when all is said and done the amount you get may disappoint you.
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79The Poor Get Poorer, And Poorer
A few decades ago, songwriter Gus Kahn penned the phrase, "There's nothing surer, the rich get rich and the poor get poorer" as part of the lyrics of "Ain't We Got Fun." The phrase is now just another cliche, but like most cliches, has considerable basis in fact.
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73True Charity: Selfless, Not Self-serving
Charity should be selfless, not self-serving. The wealthy, too often, use charities for something other than soliciting their thanks. Asise from tax breaks, the big givers, especially, reap large rewards, both financially and socially.
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72Sources Go With Facts
If I know something to be a fact, that's good enough for me. Nevertheless, you can't just state a fact without fear of contradiction. Often, when I state what to me is a fact, someone always wants to know: Where did you hear that? Answer? Today in History!
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75Is It Safe to Invest in Stocks?
Financial pundits can tick off dozens of strategies for winning in the market. Such advice ranges from the astrological alignment of the stars to environmentally correct stocks or mutual funds. I say, if you have spare funds, take the plunge -- but be careful!
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74Revitalize America's Downtown
In the late '90s there was a renewed interest in America's ailing cities. Some employers set up shop in dying downtowns. Boston's Emerson College, for instance, bought property and built dormitories in a downtown area only a few subway stops from the infamous Combat Zone.
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74Gosh, I Hope I Never Get To Be Too Rich
Wealthy people often say that money isn't everything; that money can't buy happiness. Strange as it may seem, I agree. I wouldn't want to be one. In fact, I actually look upon rich people with pity; I feel sorry for them!
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71To Any Dog That Bites: Bite the Dust
It's a rare bird indeed who doesn't like, or love, domesticated animals, especially pets. But, naturally, animals sometimes behave like animals. Incidents of dogs biting people have created calls for some kind of action.
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74Preserve Our Constitution
Why is it that so many of us feel that the rights and responsibilities we inherited from our forefathers may be, despite our reverence for the U.S. Constitution, in serious jeopardy?
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73Big Brother Rearing His Ugly Head
It seems Americans are bound and determined to solve the problem of the 21st Century by giving up the hard-earned rights won for us by our forefathers of the past three centuries. If it were put to a vote, would we really cast away our right to privacy?
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