Author Archives: Merdies Hayes

Aside from a rousing session of Monopoly, most Americans don’t give financial literacy much thought. In fact, only 40 percent of adults will maintain a budget and track their spending. That’s what the Jump$tart Coalition has discovered, and it may ring true through practically all social groups.

Aside from a rousing session of Monopoly, most Americans don’t give financial literacy much thought.

“April Fools is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other 364 days.”
—Mark Twain’s “Pudd’nhead Wilson Calendar,” 1917.

It’s Holy Week for Christians around the world. And nestled between Palm Sunday and Easter is Good Friday, the 24-hour period when Jesus Christ was sentenced to death, flogged, betrayed and ridiculed, and eventually nailed to the cross do die a “criminal’s death.”

It’s Holy Week for Christians around the world. And nestled between Palm Sunday and Easter is Good Friday, the 24-hour period when Jesus Christ was sentenced to death, flogged, betrayed and ridiculed, and eventually nailed to the cross do die a “criminal’s death.”

Every age has its heroes. In terms of vote-getting, it’s the individual who manages to rise above the socio-political landscape to create a new and independent powerbase. Roughly 200 years ago Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote about a modern-day Prometheus—Frankenstein that is—who was created out of the abyss of

“Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings …”
—From the poem “High Flight,” John Magee, 1941