I was sitting here in downtown France reading a column by Roger Cohen this morning when I came across this particularly brazen flirtation with career-suicide and almost aspirated 50 bucks’ worth of espresso:

Churn is the American way. Companies are born, rise, fall and die. Others come along to replace them. The country’s remarkable capacity for innovation, for reinvention, is tied to its acceptance of failure. Or always has been. Without failure, the culture of risk fades. Without risk, creativity withers. Save the zombies and you sabotage the vital.

Go, Roger. Except, uh, you work for the New York Times. Until next week, when you’ll be replaced by George Romero.