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Ayn Rand Institute Lets Us Read Some More Rand!

By on September 2, 2008 9

Ayn Rand ARI has once again taken some baby steps into the 21st century by making available online a few more of the works they’re supposedly trying to promote, including Rand’s essays “The Objectivist Ethics” (probably her most important article), “Introducing Objectivism,” “An Answer for Businessmen,” “Man’s Rights,” “Collectivized ‘Rights’,” and “The Nature of Government” (this last is Rand’s only serious discussion of anarchism) as well as some Rand audio files (lectures and interviews).

Addendum:

I just noticed that, despite the absence of any warning to this effect, the online text of “The Objectivist Ethics” is not complete; it’s just the first few pages of the article. I haven’t checked the others yet, but beware. And if it still needed saying: DON’T TRUST ARI.

Six of One

By on September 1, 2008 3

You’d better have one hell of a plan, Michael.

– from tonight’s show, but it could
really be the tagline for the whole series

Gretchen

Tonight was the season premiere of Prison Break. For the spoiler-averse, I’ve buried my thoughts in the comments section.

In Thickness and in Health

By on September 1, 2008 0

Charles Johnson announces today that his article Libertarianism Through Thick and Thin has just been published in The Freeman. (Actually I noticed the link posted on his other site a few days ago when I was looking for something else, but this time I refrained from scooping him – though I did link to the piece in a comment.) Charles plans to post a longer version in a few weeks.

The left-libertarian quest for world domination continues ….

Scoop!

By on September 1, 2008 1

As far as I can tell from the tv news the past few days, there are only two things happening anywhere in the world:

1. There’s a hurricane.

2. Some people are running for president.

American Solipsism

By on August 31, 2008 2

Three years ago I commented on the Weather Channel’s reporting that in a “worst-case scenario” the edge of hurricane Emily might graze Florida or Texas, but not to worry, the worst part of the storm was merely headed toward Mexico.

Tonight I just saw some doofus of a reporter on CNN saying how we all hope hurricane Gustav doesn’t hit any part of the United States. Not “any inhabited area” – just “any part of the United States.”

Palin Dromemord Nilap

By on August 29, 2008 18

When I first heard that McCain had picked Palin as his running-mate, I was excited – until I found out they didn’t mean Michael.

Seriously, though, this strikes me as a fiendishly brilliant move (and it’s probably making Obama wonder if he shouldn’t have picked Clinton after all instead of bland apparatchik Biden). Since I prefer four years of Obama to four years of McCain, fiendishly brilliant moves from the McCain camp are a bit depressing.

On the brighter side, though, at least we’re now virtually guaranteed that one of the two top slots next year will be someone other than a white male. Admittedly that thought is only mildly cheering, given that I don’t want anybody in those slots. But it’s still somewhat pleasing.

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