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...article on the American pornographer Samuel Roth, "Prometheus of the Unprintable," contained a passage that, read today, is creepy in its ignorant prescience: Robert Antrim writes of Roth: "His life would be worth noting if he had done nothing more than get himself prosecuted by the Post Office Department both for publishing obscenity and for not publishing obscenity. (The not-publishing charge, of course, was mail fraud; Roth, as he did more often than not, had published some tame stuff, advertising that it heaved with passion, The P.O. felt that he should have kept his word, even...
...Basically, Ginzburg, like Sam Roth before him, was convicted on a kind of Truth in Advertising sting: he suggested his magazine was dirty when it wasn't. Adding insult to injury, the same day the Supremes upheld Ginzburg's conviction, they overtuned a Massachusetts obscenity ruling on Fanny Hill. Justice William Brennan, writing for the majority, stated that to be obscene a work must be "utterly without redeeming social value." That the judges could implicitly place the patently artful Eros in that unredeemed category is an irony they apparetly ignored...
...taken with a wary eye toward the future. New college grads ought to think twice about taking a job offering low current but high future wages. Those future wages may not materialize and may be taxed to death. Middle-age and middle-class workers should consider contributing to Roth rather than conventional IRAs. The conventional IRA lowers your current taxes but raises your future taxes, including taxes on your future Social Security benefits. New retirees should consider cashing out their 401(k)s early and delaying receipt of Social Security. That dramatically raises Social Security benefits and lowers the taxes...
...anyone can convert a traditional IRA (whose distributions are taxed as ordinary income) to a Roth IRA (whose distributions are tax free and may be passed to heirs). Converting may not make sense if you are in poor health or do not want to bequeath your IRA. You will have to pay tax on the whole amount over two years. But if you can pay the tax from other funds, converting is a no-brainer...
...novelty wears off, Cereality may struggle to convince consumers it offers more than what they can get at home. "Starbucks has unique recipes. Jamba Juice has unique 'boosters.' But I'm not sure if Cereality is going to be able to put a specific stamp on cereal," he says. Roth is confident he can, with baked cereal bars, smoothies and novel mixes he hopes will leave his competition soggily behind...