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Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:41 am
2 is a higher number than my preferred number of "zero," and it's still lower than 30. I think you can summarize a lot of the Obama Era in t...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/06/12 6:47 am
Who has the irrational hatred of POTUS ? Greenwald or Paul ? Which POTUS ? Bush? Obama ? Lincoln ? Madison ? Any ideas about why ? rather...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/05/12 1:30 am
Good post! I've stopped by a few times, but never commented. I think the key phrase in assessing Greenwald is "overcompensates" and he does...Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 2:24 pm
I dislike the term "emoprog." It confuses musical politics with movement politics.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:19 pm
For the same reason Ron Paul approved those newsletters.Re: Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
02/03/12 1:18 pm
And vote. No vote, no voice and no right to criticize the government, because the sorry a-holes who don't vote enable whichever government t...
Category Archives: Ayn Rand
Would You Kindly Buy This DVD?
Not even kidding about the basis for this one. Magic Love Hose makes comics for OsborneInk.com. He lives in Canada where he can lob grenades into America’s political process from Minimum Safe Distance. This is his Twitter. Say hi.
Passing Rand for Vonnegut
By Marc Mitchell During my freshman year of high school, fresh off an assigned (and traumatic) reading of Elie Wiesel’s Night, I was presented with a choice: Ayn Rand or Kurt Vonnegut.
Biblical Errancy is Intentional
Rachel Tabachnick has been tracking culture warriors for a long time, and provides a badly-needed window on the “education” that movement conservatism seeks to install everywhere. Darwin is stripped from the “Christian” classroom — with the sole exception of economics: … Continue reading
Atlas Sucked
The humor was rare and unintentional. The film reached for fiasco but fell short. Nondescript, insignificant, it is a faithful adaptation of the source material and should be considered the definitive screen version…minus the sex scenes. The juvenile thrill that … Continue reading
“Atlas Shrugged” is Too Big to Fail
Made for a reported budget of $10 or $15 million, depending on who you ask, Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 opened in 299 theaters and grossed $1.7 million this weekend, according to the LA Times. For any other movie, that would … Continue reading
Atlas Shrugged Part 1 “Crushingly Ordinary”
Michael Phillips via LA Times: This movie is crushingly ordinary in every way, which with Rand, I wouldn’t have thought possible. (Emphasis mine)
Morning Awful: Ayn Rand
Communism and collectivism are human survival strategies familiar to anthropology. Human civilization is impossible without group effort. She promulgated a gospel of selfishness that inspired Anton LaVey’s Satanic Bible:
Morning Awful
There’s a fantastic analysis at Salon about Stack’s nemesis, Section 1706 of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which removed that protection from certain “technical personnel” — specifically singling out those who provided services as an “engineer, designer, drafter, computer … Continue reading
John Stossel Is A Tool
John Stossel is happy in the Faux Noise toolbox. While skimming the article at Daily Beast I came across this passage tucked in between paeans to the prescience of Ayn Rand: Now, before you could be a TV repairman, you … Continue reading
Gault Joins Stimulus Consensus
Not only are House Black Caucus members demanding more job creation, so are economists, including one ironcally named Gault: (W)ith roughly a quarter of the stimulus money out the door after nine months, the accumulation of hard data and real-life … Continue reading
