Tag Archives: In The News

Investing In Death

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Terry Taylor

A new idea is floating around Wall Street. It involves investment companies buying your life insurance early and cashing in on it when you die. Can you say reverse mortgage? Yeah, like that. Let’s say you have a $250,000 life … Continue reading →

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Today, I take a break from my normal blogging and stories to pass along news.

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Terry Taylor

Today, I take a break from my normal blogging and stories to pass along a bit of news.   ————— Here is the story courtesy of the Associated Press via Yahoo News: Mon Aug 24, 9:08 pm ET   MARION, Ala. – Two Alabama … Continue reading →

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Cheap Vacations

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Terry Taylor

With no money for vacations and more people taking staycations, other cheap excursions are gaining in popularity. We went to the Smithsonian Museums in Washington, D.C. this summer. They are free and filled with things to keep a family occupied … Continue reading →

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Fighting

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Terry Taylor

Since before 2000 BC, the ugly practice of cockfighting has attracted humans with a taste for gambling and blood. On July 26th, however, Shelton, Connecticut police seized 150 canaries, $8,000 and charged 19 people with bird-fighting. I have always thought … Continue reading →

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The Curious Case Of My Twitter Novel

Posted on July 24, 2009 by Terry Taylor

  On June 19th, I started doing something crazy: writing a novel on Twitter. Not about Twitter, on it, line by line, chunk by chunk. Watching people in Iran tweeting news out of their country when the press was shut … Continue reading →

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Wienermobile Crashes

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Terry Taylor

I have seen the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile on America’s highways for years. As you can see from the picture, it looks like a yellow, 1960’s Cadillac loaded down with a trailer-sized wiener. Seeing the orange wiener protruding from the home … Continue reading →

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Top 5, 7, 10, Whatever

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Terry Taylor

Are you following Twitter’s A-List through their precious 140-word squirts or reading the latest Top Five or Ten? In our endless efforts to categorize and rank everything and everyone, who tops out as the Number One Human right now? Jesus, … Continue reading →

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Corporate Punishment

Posted on June 19, 2009 by Terry Taylor

We have our mission statement. We have our silos and pockets of innovation and divisions of labor. We have mantras we never read and customer bills of rights we mostly ignore. We have organized everything into elevator speeches and chicken … Continue reading →

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Their Prom. Our Prom.

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Terry Taylor

Tuxes, gowns, flowers and limos mix with music, dancing and hangovers. Across the South, teenagers are proming this time of year. Something else is going on as well: old school segregation. George Wallace would be proud.

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Taxes Versus Investments

Posted on May 1, 2009 by Terry Taylor

Back in the middle of April, I was thinking; people hate taxes. They even hate the word tax. It fills them with loathing and feelings of waste and pain. Behavioral scientists have known this for years. Instead of income tax … Continue reading →

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