Keeping it simple: Personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary recommends a new book by a guy who advocates financial plans so simple they can be written on a cocktail napkin.
It all depends on which cocktail napkin. A plan written on the first napkin of the evening will advise living within your means, saving for retirement, etc. A plan written on the fifth napkin, on the other hand, will consist of stock tips from somebody’s brother-in-law.
Drop and give me 20: Fitness fads come and go, but the old standbys — squats, push-ups and the like — remain the best way to stay fit, trainers say.
Yeah, but “New Fitness Miracle: The Exercises You Hated in High School P.E. Class” sounds like the most dismal late-night infomercial ever made.
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1934, the very first “Three Stooges” short was released.
Within a few days, parents across America were dealing with a wave of eye-pokes, nose-honks and head-conks, with annoying kid brothers the usual recipients.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
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