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I don’t know how other parents do it. It seems like I barely have time to get the kids off to school before I need to be at work and then, even not taking time off for lunch, it’s nearly bedtime by the time I’ve put in my eight hours and made my way home. We never have enough time for playing games or working on projects together. But what’s a parent to do, short of discovering a previously-unknown rich uncle? We’ve got bills to pay; kids aren’t cheap!
The traditional comic book trade may be thought of as big business but that isn’t the case of the legendary superhero factory Marvel. The Walt Disney Co. will be acquiring the company for $4 billon…yes $4 billion…dollars in cash and stock.
Disney will be the new masters and overlords of about 5,000 Marvel characters such as Iron Man, Fantastic Four, and X-Men. Many of them were Continue reading »
THE Gucci whose name is all over your purse (or in my case, all over my much richer friends’ purses) is dead, but a kid several generations down the line has just learned she can’t use his name anymore.
Or else. Continue reading »
What would summer be without a couple of kids with a lemonade stand? And a cranky neighbor getting them in trouble?
A couple of kids in the Philadelphia are were doing what enterprising kids do in the summer – serving up cold drinks for a little cash when a neighbor called the cops. But instead of telling the neighbor to get over it, the cop cited the children for sales without a permit. Continue reading »
Crocs are dying. The Washington Post has predicted he shoe company’s demise, running this article about its increasingly dire financial situation. 
As the story reports, the company last year lost $181.5 million, cut a couple thousand jobs and now must pay off its debt before September’s end if it expects to stay afloat. As one investment fund manager rather bluntly put it: “The company’s toast … They’re zombie-ish. They’re dead and they don’t know it.” Crocs already scared me a little, but thinking of them as the stars of a George Romero horror movie? That’s a place I never thought we’d visit.
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