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Awesome Men Throughout History: Milo Aukerman

Rock musicians don’t have an easy time aging gracefully. Look at Axl Rose, or Steven Tyler, or Eddie Van Halen. Actually, don’t look at Eddie Van Halen. Poor guy looks like a stick of beef jerky. My point is that running all over the country playing music and doing drugs and trying to get laid

Top Five Movies of Nia Long

I?m not sure if anyone reading this listens to Never Not Funny, but I highly recommend it. If you do, you will soon find out that host Jimmy Pardo loves him some ?General Hospital.? You might also find out that he loved ?MacGruber? and having recently watched it, I can whole-heartedly agree that it is

Awesome Men Throughout History: Divine

This week’s Awesome Man Throughout History became famous, initially, as a woman. Harris Glenn Milstead, better known as the actor/drag queen/performance artist Divine, is a Baltimore icon whose roles in John Waters’ early movies—Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Polyester, and the original Hairspray—made him a cult film star and a hit on the gay nightclub circuit.

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The Self-Made Man: Ralph Nader

Here at TSB, we talk a lot about hard work being a key ingredient to success, and perhaps the most important ingredient. Talent, opportunity, and aptitude are all good, but at the end of the day, you have to get up off your ass.

Awesome Men Throughout History: Bronko Nagurski

We’ve seen some great athletes, and some really weird ones, profiled at Awesome Men Throughout History, but they’ve generally been one-sport athletes. Guys who excel in more than one professional sport are pretty rare; off the top of my head, I can only think of two. One of them is Bo Jackson, who we’ll talk

Must-Read: How Debt Can Mess Up Your Life

Money is a weird thing. You get a lot of it for doing certain things called “work.” But then, even if you don’t have enough of it to purchase the thing that you want, other people will actually give you some of it. Not for free, but for the specific price of having to pay

The Self-Made Man: Thinkgeek

The rise of geek culture over the past ten years or so has been fueled, at least in TSB’s opinion, by a lot of entrepreneurial energy. How many of today’s big, profitable companies started because someone wanted to monetize their nerdy hobby/obsession/skill? How many thirtysomething millionaires were writing code and listening to Rush while their

Awesome Men Throughout History: Louis Wain

Long before the advent of cat image macros, or the Internet, or even computers, there was Louis Wain. A British artist who specialized in, and was obsessed with, cat portraits, Wain is often held up as an example of how good outsider art can be.

The Self-Made Man: Benjamin John Coleman

I hope I’ve made it clear to TSB’s readers that entrepreneurs can excel in most fields and industries. Yes, the current entrepreneur stereotype is a young, Polo-shirted white guy who dropped out of an Ivy League school to do computer magic, but that’s not the only way to hustle oneself into success. Take Benjamin John

Top Five Movies of Julie Christie

Time to hop back in the TSB wayback machine and let everyone know about a magnificent actress. Julie Christie still does great work (I?d check out ?Away From Her? directed by the wonderful Sarah Polley, but stay away from the movie that has he who shall not be named and the movie with the actor