I am amused to see this on the front page. I submitted it previously and it did not get a single upvote and I found myself wanting to post more and more quotes from it because I found the piece so fascinating. So I deleted it and did a blog write up about it (with all those quotes I had begun making notes of), and then submitted that, hoping it would have more appeal for the audience here. It also got no real attention.

So, apparently, luck and timing are huge factors in what does well here.