FCU's PLS discovery has quickly become one of the most exciting stories in the uranium sector.

The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in '90. We were locked in it for a year and a half and everyone came out of it.

I got kicked out of high school, so I couldn't get into very many colleges.

I knew I wanted to be a journalist ever since I was a teenager. While it is interesting and gratifying to be on the business side and to see how that all works, the main reason I kept a business role here was to protect the editorial integrity of Salon.

Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

Journalism is not just a cause, its also a wacky profession.