2. VEGGIE TALES BANKRUPTCY. The company that makes the Veggie Tales videos has filed for Chapter 11, Christianity Today says. It's the not uncommon story of a young company with great products overextending and getting into trouble. The company will keep operating and producing new videos-- bankruptcy doesn't necessarily shut down the operations of a firm-- but it will be taken over by a different company, and the owners will not be as rich as they were a couple of years ago. What is nice about the story is that the CEO accepts responsibility, and without feeling sorry for himself:

Vischer, whose role models included Walt Disney, and who often spoke of building a company as influential as the Disney Company, also blamed his decisions as Big Idea's CEO for the company's difficulties.
"We got ourselves upside down financially when everything was working wonderfully," Vischer told Christian Retailing. "When things were doing so well, I thought that was God wanting us to expand, so we grew like crazy. Now I think it was more me having all these great ideas in my head and being so excited that I wanted to do them all at once."

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