Congress is poised to add three new benefits to the popular Thrift Savings Plan.For service members, the big change is a Roth 401(k) option that would let participants put some or all of their after-tax salary into an account that will grow tax-free.
Also in the mix are a survivor benefit that would let spouses of deceased TSP participants maintain TSP accounts and a mutual fund option that would let participants invest TSP money in private-sector mutual funds.All three are included in HR 1256, which has been passed by the House and is expected to move quickly through the Senate.
When Lou Reed released “Metal Machine Music” more than three decades ago, he was working without a template at least in the rock lexicon. Free from song structure, conventional instrumentation and emotional penetrability, the work struck some as pure genius, others as pure, unlistenable noise.
The latter element has become a well-established part of avant-garde rock in the intervening years, so for Reed to revisit the territory at this juncture with a newly-formed ensemble is something of a surprise. But judging by this two-night stand, the group’s stateside unveiling, Reed still has something to say in the language of noise something more than a mere exorcism of the ghosts of a past confrontation.
Let me be honest from the start. I’m not a huge Star Trek fan. I think I could be. It’s just I’ve never really sat down and given either the series or the films the time they deserve. I am, however, a massive Shatner fan, but not for his output on screen, you understand. No, I love him for his music.
