Failure: It's an option

Do-Over!

Haunted by the failures of his youth, a middle-aged husband and father goes back to school—elementary school.

Robin Hemley gives new meaning to the phrase ‘Big Man on Campus.’ More

Dogged Pursuit

Meet Dusty, the world’s least likely agility dog.

When Robert Rodi embarked on a quest to turn Dusty into a champion agility dog, he assumed that prizes and glory were just around the corner. “That was ridiculously naïve of me. I could just as easily sprout wings and fly,” he says. More

Fordlandia

The rise and fall of Henry Ford’s forgotten jungle city.

Henry Ford's ill-conceived attempt to establish a sprawling rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon has to be considered one of his greatest failures. More

Mr. Irrelevant - Ryan Succop

Last in the NFL draft, first during Irrelevant Week.

On April 26, University of South Carolina placekicker Ryan Succop (pronounced “suck-up”) was the last player selected in the 2009 NFL draft. More

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This Day in Failure

2008: The NFL cancels its 2008 supplemental draft because not a single college athlete applies before the deadline.

1988: The U.S.S. Vincennes shoots down an Iran Air jetliner over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people on board. The aircraft is misidentified as an Iranian fighter.

Failure Analysis

Butt ... butt ... I don't have time to change before the race begins, she says. More

Will you read the memoirs of Bush and Cheney?

Letters to the Editor

Letter from a man who has driven the Edsel, Corvair and Pinto. More

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The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and then denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

- Nazi Hermann Goering, April 18, 1946