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...person's taboo is another's business opportunity. Hence the arrival of the newest weapon in the corporate team-building arsenal: bouncy castles. Pump It Up (PIU), the nation's biggest chain of indoor inflatable playgrounds--those facilities with enormous, brightly colored balloon-like structures that usually house frenetic children--is now offering business-education programs. (Read "Competence: Is Your Boss Faking...
...ahem, leap. Since 2005, Jody Wallace, who owns a PIU franchise in Ohio, has hosted about two events a month for local divisions of Procter & Gamble, GE, Yellow Book and Ryan Homes. She says she got the idea partly from watching parents sheepishly try out the equipment at their children's parties. "They got just as excited as the kids," she says...
Some things were unavailable--quit being stingy with the Top Chef, Bravo!--but what I lost in choice I made up for in serendipity. I downloaded video podcasts from Cook's Illustrated, watched Rob Corddry's Web comedy Children's Hospital and rediscovered the cult comedy Strangers with Candy (with a pre--Daily Show Stephen Colbert) because it turned up randomly through the Joost app on my iPhone...
Michael Kinsley hypothesizes that the typical American family will be handing down Social Security entitlements to their children as an inheritance [Feb. 9]. Using the same Federal Reserve data Kinsley cites, the median net worth of couples ages 65 to 74 in 2004 was $190,000, including housing assets. By definition of the term median, this value is far more representative of the typical American family than the average net worth of $691,000 he quotes--which is skewed higher by the wealthiest 10% of families. That recalculation, combined with the large decline in net worth for most Americans...
Bravo to Michael Kinsley for daring to point out that many recipients of Social Security do not really need it. Indeed, my wife and I inherited some Social Security from our parents, and it is likely that our children will inherit some from us. However, I disagree with Kinsley that fixing it would be a nightmare. Just pay me back what I put into the system over the years. Any more than that is simply welfare, and I should receive it only when I desperately need it. Of course, to make such a radical change, Congress would have to show...