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The DISC of Ayn Rand’s anti-family philosophy and how it promotes human misery.
You wanted to know what explains the Incandescent/Cautious female harridans and the Cautious/Incandescent male involuntary-celibates of the libertarian movement: It is this formula for human misery concocted by Ayn Rand.This started as a comment. Then it grew. If you have … Continue reading
What do you call an anti-family libertarian like Stefan Molyneux? A Marxist.
“If you want to perform the greatest service for political liberty, all you have to do is turf all of your unsatisfying relationships. Parents, siblings, spouse, it doesn’t matter.” –Stefan MolyneuxI do not wish to dwell on matters Molyneuvian, but … Continue reading
Fisking Ayn Rand on abortion: Why her utilitarianism is necessarily anti-man, anti-mind, anti-life.
“The don’t want to live. They want you to die.” –Ayn RandSaturday marks the six-month three year anniversary of the release of the first of the Planned Parenthood infanticide-mining videos. In all that time, the Ayn Rand Institute has had … Continue reading
Empathy tells all: Why are libertarians so hostile to marriage and family?
Do you see any room for a baby – an endlessly needy whining mammal that will never, ever pay back its monetary and opportunity costs – in there? That’s why you see so few babies among libertarians.Photo by: Lisa Rosario[From … Continue reading
Ayn Rand’s 7 helpful tips for wrecking your marriage with a total, lifelong commitment.
That Robert Tracinski is a hard-working carney!Photo by: Paul SablemanRobert Tracinski braced yet another cleansing ritual yesterday, seeking absolution from the goddess of his idolatry with his umpteenth mountain of cotton-candy praise. Kim Jong-un should have such an apple polisher. … Continue reading
Wanna make it big as a Hollywood screenwriter? Just take a weed-whacker to every testicle you see.
“Hey, hey, hey! Who’s your daddy?”Photo by: Mike MozartHollywood hates fathers. Who knew? Just kidding. It’s an evergreen story, one that comes up every 18 months or so: ‘TV dads are dopes, dupes and dumb-asses.’ This trenchant essay is based … Continue reading
Righting Ayn Rand’s wrongs: Family endures. Everything else is temporary.
You say you want a better world? I want for your grandchildren to sail through the air on a tire swing hung from a tree you planted.Photo by: Jim PennucciAyn Rand only got three things seriously wrong. I know that’s … Continue reading
Waiting for Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Inst. to come clean about the Planned Parenthood videos?
Busily butt-bussing billionaires: Yaron Brook is pimping a book about being a full-time professional pimp for full-time professional rent-seekers.You could have had a baby by now. Yes, the evader-in-chief of the Ayn Rand Institute has let nine precious months slip … Continue reading
I can ask the Ayn Rand Institute’s Yaron Brook anything? How many of my abortion questions can he evade?
Tune in Saturday for“As the Worm Squirms.”This is choice: ASK YARON ANYTHING! Ask Yaron and you shall receive. It’s true. This Saturday, February 20, Yaron Brook will devote the entire show to answering your questions. Join Yaron here, at 2:30 … Continue reading
The worst result of Yaron Brook’s abortion evasion? Victims of Objectivism still eat their young.
Why do the victims of Objectivism eat their young? Yaron Brook told them to.I was all over Yaron Brook of The Ayn Rand Institute in 2015 for his cowardly, shameful, ignominious evasion of the Planned Parenthood videos. I went easier … Continue reading
Robert @Tracinski, @YaronBrook: In what way is #AynRand the answer to the problem posed by #Mizzou?
How wrong was Ayn Rand? No ducklings, no ducks. No duh…Photo by: Dave StokesI’ve been hectoring Ayn Rand Institute Grand Poobah Yaron Brook for four months now, wondering why he will not rise to the defense of Ayn Rand’s atrocious utilitarian … Continue reading
Practical anarchism is egoism in action: “Be who you are. Do what you want. Have what you love.”
My answer, always: Live for your own sake, in pursuit of your own values, in behalf of your own loved ones – starting with yourself.Photo by: Kalyan ChakravarthyPeople who are fans of talk-show host Stefan Molyneux and who are not … Continue reading
The Captain’s Commitment: Honoring our enduring obligations.
Nobody wants to think about abortion, so let’s think about something else instead: Now that wasn’t cruel! But Cameron Crowe’s 13-second morality play illuminates perfectly why this crisis of conscience over intrauterine infanticide matters so much: You create enduring obligations … Continue reading
Doing the job the Ayn Rand Institute is afraid to do: Abortion is incompatible with egoism.
How will you feel about yourself going forward if, as the only possible protector of the life of a helpless innocent, you choose to exterminate that life? Egoists ask those kinds of questions. Juveniles do not.Ayn Rand’s moral philosophy is … Continue reading
Is the Ayn Rand Institute’s indefensible stand on abortion part of a clandestine intelligence op?
Spies everywhere!Photo by: JD HancockWriter David McGowan is the author of an enchanting conspiracy theory: Was the Laurel Canyon music scene of the late ’60s and early ’70s a sophisticated intelligence operation devised to defuse the anti-Vietnam-War movement? As with … Continue reading