I was reading an article on the Enron the other day, when I came across an interesting tidbit. Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling, who was just convicted of fraud and a bunch of other good stuff related to the Enron scandal, is the younger brother of none other than...
WGN's weatherman, Tom Skilling
I'm pretty sure that I've railed on weathermen before in this blog, and probably have singled out Tom Skilling at one point or another, for being a waste of space. Little did I know that he was the brother of one of the central figures in perhaps the worst "white-collar crime" in recent history.
See, I knew there was a reason I didn't trust Tom Skilling. This merely confirms what I always suspected all along. That beneath that jolly smile and grandfather-like demeanor, lies a man with a twisted psyche. You can't escape genetics. Beware, if your last name is Skilling, you're bound to one of two possible fates:
1) Ruining the lives of thousands of hard working Americans by unethical management of a corporation, or
2) Ruining my life with your faulty weather predictions.
There are no exceptions. The world needs to rid itself of this scourge that calls itself the Skilling family, I say.
