If you wanna feel better about yourself just do an Internet search on something like Celebrities Without Makeup, or Un-photo-shopped VIPs.  It will do your heart good to see how plain looking or, in some cases, how down-right ugly-wuggly many icons among the “beautiful people” really are in their...

The 24-year old actor James Dean was the iconic Rebel Without a Cause, the image of teenage angst, who already had three blockbuster movies under his belt before a misplaced 1950 Ford Tudor blocked the intersection on US Route 466 that would serve as a premature end to the meteoric rise of the young...

The London Bach Choir has been around since 1876 when it debuted with a performance of Bach’s B Minor Mass.  For the next ninety or so years their gig didn’t get much attention except among those with a musical preference for things like, well... the B Minor Mass. But all that changed in 1969. ...

Back in the old days kids would buy a comic book for 10 cents (5 cents if the cover had been removed for re-sale) and peruse the back pages for ads that peddled everything from x-ray glasses to work-out programs that promised to make you into a he-man in two weeks.  Purchases were made by mail and paid...

The satirical tabloid is still in publication.  But certainly anyone with any age to their credit remembers the heyday of its popularity back in the 1960s and 1970s when Mad Magazine was on the stands and in the hands of its huge adolescent readership. Its regular features were the stuff of the contemporary...

In addition to the simplicity, ease of implementation and administration, and plan design and funding flexibility, an executive bonus arrangement can meet an array planning needs if presented properly to the employer and comprehensively to the executive. Life for Life or Life for Less The need to protect...

While many advisors implement conservative, guaranteed solutions in trust owned policy arrangements, this is not a universal practice. In a low interest rate environment, many policies that are held in trust may be under-performing and do not have the underlying guarantees to ensure that the policy...

They say that you ought to think of your life expectancy as a yardstick. If you are age 25 you’ve reached one foot, at 50 you have both feet on the two-foot mark, and at 65 you’re somewhere between 31-32 inches. You get the drift. As you get toward the short end of the stick you start thinking...

In the most important episode of his life Paul Revere did not fire a shot. But his willingness to spread the alarm averted what could have been an early military disaster for the revolutionists of Massachusetts Bay. Planners, too, in addition to fulfillment of their usual responsibilities must fill...

Climatologists can argue all day about which hurricane was the worst. The fact of the matter is the “baddest” is the one that destroyed your home, the number of millibars notwithstanding. And back in the old days they all were the baddest because you didn’t have any warning. Nowadays, sophisticated...