This morning I was thinking about different ways that people become famous. Not just celebrity fame, but the fame that lasts through death and sometimes even through the fall of your civilization. People like Alexander, Caesar, Genghis Khan, and Wilt Chamberlain. So I decided to make a list of 20 human beings of lasting fame [...]
There’s been a lot of news lately on financial institutions collapsing (Lehman, Washington Mutual, AIG, and the list goes on). It’s disconcerting and probably not over. I have come to my conclusions as to what this all means, but I want to hear more about what others think. This post will be a discussion [...]
Last week I had a conversation with my Editor no one wants to have. It went something like this: Krumble: So … that post you put up, I think — Me: It sucks! I’m sorry. It really sucks. It sucks, sucks, sucks. Krumble: — it could use a little tightening. And more [...]