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...unpopular choices - like means-testing - that would truly make Social Security a viable program. "We will not let [the President] raid the Social Security trust fund," Republican J. C. Watts said Saturday, but both sides seem content to do just the opposite: raid the rest of the Treasury to prop up Social Security. Unfortunately, both are just accounting tricks. To paraphrase LBJ, "Son, it's all our money." Which is probably why it's difficult to spend it wisely...
...Randy curls the mustache into a sinister little shape, slicks his mohawk to one side and starts dancing to Elvis's "Return to Sender." He laughs and sticks the prop back in his pocket. Beth jumps up and runs down the steps to say goodbye to some preppy kids who are leaving for the day. She hugs them; they hug back, gingerly, avoiding the spikes on her vest...
Coming from small-town Wisconsin, I have long lived on the assumption that I can strew cash about my room, prop the door open and still sleep soundly, knowing I am safe. In fact, that is exactly what my brother used to do back home. And let me tell you, it was great. Whenever I needed some extra change, I could just go borrow some from his carpet. (Of course, I always paid the carpet back...
...doubt. But their impact on less glitzy neighborhoods is unclear. Chappaqua is a rural bedroom community that prizes solitude. Glitz is bad. Yet a sitting President's decision to buy in our town is a ringing endorsement. Real estate agents will trumpet it and attract more potential buyers and prop up values...
...metal is pop's newest creative hotbed, but the trouble with this rising Florida act is that it too often comes off as an attitude in search of a band. Like nose rings or baggy jeans, attitude is just one more pop prop, and the muddy roar of Bizkit's angry, shapeless songs does nothing to prove otherwise. The group's latest album, though, trades some of the hard-core posing for song structure and, yes, melody--without getting too wimpy. Even the hardiest moshers occasionally need something to thrash to. Bizkit is still a long way from the brutal...