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Posted February 14, 2013

Craigslist is a modern marvel. It’s part classifieds listing, part dating site, part employment site, and part window into the sad, isolated desperation in which many of us l ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Abe Sherman

Posted February 12, 2013

This week’s subject of Awesome Men Throughout History is a Baltimore icon, and something of a hyper-local legend for people who still remember old Baltimore (defined roughly ...

The Self-Made Man: Frank Durkee

Posted February 7, 2013

Baltimore’s Super Bowl victory (and the post-game interview with a very drunk Mayor Rawlings-Blake) has filled me with unusual amounts of civic pride, so I thought I’d ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Vince Lombardi

Posted February 5, 2013

In honor of the Super Bowl (go Ravens!), this week’s Awesome Men Throughout History will focus on a man whose accomplishments as a football coach have made him something of a ...

The Self-Made Man: Lowtax

Posted January 31, 2013

Most of this column’s featured self-starters, especially those who’ve used the Internet to establish themselves, have been fairly serious, earnest, business-oriented pe ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Arthur C. Clarke

Posted January 29, 2013

A decent amount of TSB’s Awesome Men Throughout History have been writers (to my eternal shame), but their accomplishments are usually limited to the immediate impact of thei ...

The Self-Made Man: Russell Simmons

Posted January 24, 2013

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons has had one goal throughout his enormously successful career: “to present urban culture in its most true form to the people who love it and the peop ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Haruki Murakami

Posted January 22, 2013

Writers can be a frustrating lot. Granted, writing is a frustrating job, but a lot of writers seem to constantly be on the lookout for a persona to graft onto themselves, which mak ...

The Self-Made Man: The Brothers Chaps

Posted January 17, 2013

Even though there hasn’t been a new Homestar Runner cartoon in almost three years, I still visit the site all the time to watch the old ones. I can probably recite Crack Stun ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Dr. Samuel J. Crumbine

Posted January 15, 2013

As we all know, public life used to be disgusting. Before the advent of things like penicillin, indoor plumbing and below-ground sewers, cities were dirty and stank to high heaven ...