Stuart Schneiderman reviews the book Stop Calling Him Honey and Start Having Sex: How Changing Your Everyday Habits Will Make You Hot for Each Other All Over Again.

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Amy Alkon: "How To Tax The Millionaires And Billionaires Away."

Stretching Anatomy

If you have back, hip or hand pain from the computer like I do, you might want to take a look at the book Stretching Anatomy. A massage therapist I see lent me a copy and it was so good, I just ordered a copy of my own.

It has some great simple stretches for your neck, shoulders, back and even wrists and hands. I am spatially challenged at times and find some of the pictures and descriptions hard to use in many books, but this one has easy with large X-ray like pictures of each stretch that are very simple but do the trick to loosen your joints and improve flexibility.

"Fifty-eight percent (58%) do not think a good work ethic will pay off,..."

This is from a poll at Rasmussen:

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 26% of Adults believe it’s still possible for just about anyone in America to work hard and get rich. That’s the lowest level measured since regular tracking on the question began in January of last year, down from 33% at that time. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Fifty-eight percent (58%) do not think a good work ethic will pay off, while 16% more are not sure.

However, a plurality of all Americans (46%) still feel it’s possible for anyone in the United States to work their way out of poverty.

And if you do get "rich," that is, make over whatever amount the government sets as "rich" such as $200,000 or $250,000, more of it is confiscated by the government (unless you are Warren Buffet and make your money in capital gains), so what's the point? Learned helplessness at its best or worst or whatever.

Christopher Orlet at The American Spectator (via Newsalert): "My accomplished friends seem to have traded children for success, while my ill-fated neighbors seem to have traded children for failure. As those of us who are parents -- and neither great successes nor great failures -- know, it was a bargain you never had to make."