Atlas Shrugged

I like something I saw on a blog a couple weeks back:"Today would have been Ayn Rand's 100th birthday. In celebration, I'm going to bake a cake and then not share it with anybody."

I'll sum it up for you. Think of Daffy Duck in the genie's cave, grabbing all the treasure he can and screaming, "MINEMINEMINEMINEMINE, ALL MINE!!!"There. Now you've pretty much got the gist of it. I'll loan him a copy of Hutch Owen. It's pretty much the anti-Rand.

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"Egos drone and pose alone, Like black balloons, all banged and blown
On a backwards river, infidels shiver In the stench of belief
And tell my mama I'm a hundred years late
I'm over the rails and out of the race
The crippled psalms of an age that won't thaw ringing in my ears"
-Beck

I think my description was punchier. And not just because it would be riotously funny to see Ayn Rand jumping around and yelling, "Hoo-hoo! Hoo-hoo! Hoo-hoo!"In all seriousness though, a good place for beginners to start reading up on Objectivism, both in Rand's own words and those of people writing about her philosophy (rather glowingly) would be with the Ayn Rand Institute. This article is my personal favorite. (Although in fairness, it's not by Rand herself.)

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"Egos drone and pose alone, Like black balloons, all banged and blown
On a backwards river, infidels shiver In the stench of belief
And tell my mama I'm a hundred years late
I'm over the rails and out of the race
The crippled psalms of an age that won't thaw ringing in my ears"
-Beck

True. But a lot of Rand's writing uses lofty grandeur about heroism and nobility to describe the general overview, and then when it gets into specifics, sneaks in something like, "and that's why it's okay to hit nuns with puppies!"Okay, not literally. But I don't have any Ayn Rand books with me at work, so I have to fall back on being a smartass.

Can't. Work, then banjo practice. I have time for snarky comments, but nothing approaching a cogent argument.

It's a term that comes up a lot in comics. It was the standard of the industry for about five decades. Crash's description is pretty accurate.

The clawhammer slide is pretty fun, but you gotta watch out for the finger picks.