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Work, play and love like a Labrador.
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Apprehending love and malice.
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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
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
Ayn Rand and me – why my homework is late…
Human thriving is not a solitary pursuit? Who knew?I am dilatory, plainly. More than a year since I’ve written anything here, and that story’s horrors bloom like mold spores. For two years and more, I’ve been stuck with a book … 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
Sister Mary Elephants all the way down: Why the victims of Ayn Rand end up so bitchy and repressed.
It’s funny that Ci’s insist that DISC cannot be true with pitch-perfect Ci fit-pitching – but that’s what Ci’s do when their compliance displays run up against defiance.Photo by: IsengardtThe Ayn Rand Institute has been paying special attention to me … Continue reading
Why is love, sex, marriage and family a battlefield? Ci Blindness. I have the math to fix it.
Human civilization is nothing but the answer to this one monumentally important question: How does a nice guy go about getting a second date around here?Photo by: Kevin DooleyWell, I’ve had a fruitful fortnight: Robert Tracinski went all Irrational Hagiographic … Continue reading
Why was Ayn Rand’s marriage a living hell? And how can you make your own better?
And you may ask yourselfWhat is that beautiful house?And you may ask yourselfWhere does that highway go to?And you may ask yourselfAm I right? Am I wrong?And you may say to yourself yourselfMy God! What have I done?!My friend Teri … 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
You could win the first-ever Ayn Rand Mother’s Day Essay Contest!
“Harry Potter! I am your father…!”Nattering pointlessly at Robert Tracinski, I hammered on this notion: Meanwhile, self-responsible fatherhood is the sole source of human civilization, and on that score Rand = Rowling = Marx. To the extent that children are … 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
Anti-#abortion theater: Getting right everything @YaronBrook and the #AynRand Institute get wrong.
Nature is just. Accordingly, you can’t slaughter your child without slaughtering your self, too.Photo by: Fibonacci BlueAs I noted yesterday, Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute is today putting on his cowardly lion costume, publicly pretending to answer any … 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
Who killed Ayn Rand’s anti-looter reputation? I suspect Pope Sneakoff, in the hospital, with a pen.
Who destroyed Ayn Rand’s reputation for intellectual integrity? Cui bono? Who had the most to gain?A few weeks ago, writing about taxation, I said: I have further thoughts on Ayn Rand’s late-life Social Security parasitism if anyone cares to revisit … 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
In its ugly #abortion evasion, what else are @YaronBrook and the #AynRand Institute neglecting?
“What, me worry?”After almost three months of exposure of the gruesome nature of the intrauterine infanticide championed by novelist Ayn Rand, Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute has to-date had this to say: “La, la, la, la, la!” That’s … Continue reading