Today, the NY Times has an op-ed by award-winning writer Mona Simpso remembering her brother Steve Jobs. Jobs, who died earlier this month, was born two years before Simpson but their parents put him up for adoption; she was an adult when she found out who her brother was: more ›

In a tender column for the Times, one-time Nixon speech writer and Wonder Years star Ben Stein tells of how the "wealth management division" of an investment bank came to his Beverly Hills home two years ago trying to get him to invest with "a genius (who) never lost money." That genius, of course, was Bernard Madoff. What the bank didn't realize of course was that while Madoff may very well have been a genius, Ben Stein is a supergenius and turned down the offer. more ›