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BOOMERS RETIRING As the oldest members of the huge baby-boom generation approach retirement--and after the searing market drop this year and last--they will be looking for less risky investments. Dividend-paying stocks are just the thing. They tend to hold up better in weak markets because they guarantee income and yet preserve the likelihood of capital gains in a recovery. High yields may also signal value. The popular Dogs of the Dow strategy calls for buying the five highest yielding Dow stocks each year--usually the five whose prices have been beaten down the most. Results weren...
...Weimer's caption is a particularly telling addition, since it rightly suggests that elementary school aged children are not prepared to digest the highfalutin philosophy of these postmodern statements-their own viewing lenses are too unsophisticated, uninformed, theoretically simple. Elementary school children tend to be less interested in art as an intellectual enterprise than as an exposition of beauty-an activity that plays on the pleasures of the sense. And while "Sliding Down A Volcano With Kleenex Boxes as Skis" is intellectually appetizing, its over-simplified visual schema doesn't have a leg to stand on in terms of beauty...
...What can happen is that fundamentalists distort the values they are trying to protect,” she said. “They tend to overemphasize belligerent passages of their faith...
Perhaps elite universities and richer countries tend to be more secular only because they can entertain illusions of total security and complacency that the rest of the world knows are delusional. Smart people aren’t being more rational or intelligent by adhering to atheism. They’ve just chosen one leap of faith over another. And yet many of us have not enough perspective on our own life nor objectivity in our thinking to acknowledge that, however you live, it makes more sense to work off of a tried model than make everything up for the first...
...urban grief accompanied by a word or phrase that may or may not connect to the next page. Most of the works follow absurd or dreamlike structures. It seems to be part of the psyche out there. Furthermore these artists' display broader graphical influences than most American cartoonists. Americans tend to use other cartoonists for inspiration, but these works put themselves in the context of the larger modernist and surrealist fine art movements. Only a few read like "regular" comix...