Coolest guy in the universe
Yes, I’m a little late on this but…
Coreyoke has added the Animalsess’s “house of the rising sun” and I stumbled upon this video of The Animals performing the song on some 60’s T.V. shoe.
Eric Burdon is so fucking cool in this. Mercy.
tonight’s rhetorical question
What if there were a vaccine for autism? What would the anti-vax people do?
more for the hipsters to sneer at…
This makes my heart soar….
Atlas Shrugged Tops Amazon’s Bestseller List
By Ayn Rand Center, 3/18/2009 9:05:51 AMWashington, D.C. – Earlier this year Ayn Rand’s prophetic novel Atlas Shrugged was selling at triple the rate it sold at in the beginning of 2008.
Now the novel is soaring to even greater heights, and its trade paperback edition is currently in first place in the Classics category on Amazon.com’s best-seller list for sales in the United States.
The 50th anniversary mass-market paperback edition of Atlas Shrugged ranks as #2 and the trade paperback Centennial edition ranks as #3. For several weeks Atlas Shrugged has been holding steady in the top 10 best-sellers in the broader United States Literature and Fiction category, and as of the writing of this release, different editions of the novel stand at #3, #5 and #6 in Amazon’s ranking.
In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, explained the parallels between Atlas Shrugged and today’s events.
“In Atlas Shrugged, Rand tells the story of the U.S. economy crumbling under the weight of crushing government interventions and regulations. Meanwhile, blaming greed and the free market, Washington responds with more controls that only deepen the crisis. Sound familiar?”
Brook also stressed the importance today of the book’s often overlooked message that capitalism cannot be properly defended without morally defending profit and self-interest: “. . . only an ethic of rational selfishness can justify the pursuit of profit that is the basis of capitalism–and that as long as self-interest is tainted by moral suspicion, the profit motive will continue to take the rap for every imaginable (or imagined) social ill and economic disaster. Just look how our present crisis has been attributed to the free market instead of government intervention–and how proposed solutions inevitably involve yet more government intervention to rein in the pursuit of self-interest.”
Those interested in understanding the morality of capitalism can learn more in Ayn Rand’s The Virtue of Selfishness–which, at #12 in the Classics category, is setting records of its own.
Copyright © 2009 Ayn Rand® Institute. All rights reserved.
My eyes
We’re having a boy. Duncan Huxley.
Michael Wilson (of Michael Moore Hates America fame) grabbed a frame from the ultrasound that I bored friends with and pointed out that, even at this age, he looks a bit like me.
Weird, eh?
Chinese Ferry Accident
Years ago, I used to carry around two clippings from the L.A. Times in my wallet.
The first one was described how, on a ferry in China, or somewhere, there was a fistfight on one of the outside decks. When the 300 passengers swarmed to the side of the ferry to watch the fight, it capsized, killing most of them.
The other one I had was the best piece of comedy writing I’d ever seen. I had a feeling that the guy writing it for AP realized that he had comedy gold in his hands and was sending out subversion on a massive scale. It was perfect “pull back & reveal” comedy writing.
Imagine the following much with more eloquence and patience than mine.
A few sentences about a shooting in a bar.
A few sentences revealing it was a gay bar.
A few sentences dealing with the shock and feeling of senselessness of the patrons.
The final sentence was something like:
“The suspect, John Gay, 42, is being held with no bail.”
Absolutely perfect. Perfect.
Sometimes, when I’m at Starbucks, I like to test the bruise and read the L.A. Times. I’ve begun tearing out little articles and snippets that I think are important.
Enjoy.
This is great because it sums up the self-centered thinking that drives socialism. “We want someone to force you to make us comfortable.”
I know, I know… This isn’t funny. It’s not funny one bit. But… you know…
Whenever I hear people thank god for someone coming through an intense operation instead of thanking the doctors, I feel that it would be okay if the doctor then cut off life support.
Wow
1979 with Colin Gentry and Hal Belknap. Check out Colin’s stupid Ovation guitar. Insanity.
I’ll never again have that much hair or be that skinny unless a wild animal eats me.
crimony
