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Lon and Gretta married older … he was 42, she just 39. Before the wedding, both owned their own homes and enjoyed fairly comfortable, relatively debt-free lifestyles. With a $60K annual income, Gretta earned a bit more than Lon. After the nuptials, they combined incomes and sold their homes to buy a bigger, more expensive …
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During the Vietnam War, one highly effective guerilla tactic used against US troops was to dig a hole, bury some sharpened bamboo at the bottom, smear the tips with feces then camouflage the pit so Joe Bonham would fall in and get impaled. Soldiers that didn’t bleed out would die later of infection. Debt is …
Diverted from “The Truth About Money” (Edelman) for a bit, doing other things, making other moves, chatting other crap … soooo … once more into the fray, shall we? Here’s the meat of it … Mr. Edelman asks the question(s), and if ‘”yes” is the answer to any one of them, pass/fail, do not skip …
In 1972, U.S. chess prodigy Bobby Fischer and Boris Spasskey, the chess camp from the-then Soviet Union, were set to compete in a tournament held in Iceland, but Bobby decided to become a problem instead. The two men had met in other tournaments, with Spasskey beating Fischer handily in each match. At the tournament set …
Most folks have that one friend, the one who puts in the occasional appearance, rarely participates in group chats, infrequently attends parties, gatherings, other social events. Somehow, rather than alienating the others, the very inaccessibility, the remoteness, the mystery, draws that person deeper within to the friendship circle. With a brutally iron hand, during the …
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Must say … highly impressed. The CryptKeeper will def go down in history as one of the greatest. Totally self-sacrificed. Gotta say … much respect. To step away from the most powerful position(well, one of) on the planet? For the good of the nation? Recognizing that yes, you are the problem? Mad props. The final …
Much like the Jan.6 insurrectionists/rioters/patriots/goons, sometimes have to wonder if Stephen King just smears stuff on the wall to see what sticks. Not that this was a bad read, no … stayed curious as to what’s next. But the payoff? So not worth the buy-in. And actually like Stephen King (gotta say his whole name, …
I like Bob De Niro. Seems like a crusty yet amusing person … your mom’s older brother who stockpiles guns and dirty jokes … “You talkin’ to me?” Unfortunately, methinks he gets typecast as a gangster … did not know he was up for Jack Torrance at the Overlook but Jack did it better / …
Imperial China, roughly 200 B.C. Two men, once great friends, became bitter enemies. Hsiang Yu descended from nobility; hot-tempered, dull-witted, and prone to violence, Hsiang was the heroic idiot, the type to lead his men into battle from the front. Liu Pang, on the other hand, hailed from the peasant class, and tended toward the …
From the turn of the 20th century until just before WWII, Joseph Duveen was the preeminent art dealer in the US. Known for his famous quote — “Europe has a great deal of art; America has a great deal of money” — Duveen was born in England and dropped out of high school to help …
