That last definition comes from the 1942 bestseller A Generation of Vipers, written by extremely Mad Dude Philip Wylie, whose only regret in life was dying before the invention of Reddit. (I assume.) He’s the one I quoted up top.
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Four or five years ago, a reader of some of my columns bought the domain name jamesaltucher.com and gave it to me as a birthday gift. It was a total surprise to me. I didn’t even know the reader. I hope one day we meet.
Two years ago a fri…
Randy Cassingham created This is True in 1994. It’s one of the first for-profit email publications on the Internet, and is still publishing every week.
Educated as a journalist, Randy was not interested in a career as a reporter: he wanted…