In recent years I have fewer reasons to frequent malls and stores such as Sears as often as when my kids were tiny tykes so this tale of how the CEO of Sears crashed the retail giant is news to me. And it took a devoted follower of Ayn Rand only a brief time to do it, in part by pitting his managers against one another!
Here’s a previous SO’W post concerning Ayn Rand which contains a video of
Only a link for you this rainy night in Georgia which leads to rense.com’s The Philosophy of the "Useless Eaters" which I ask you to consider, if you can, as the calls for "entitlement" reform and sequester cuts continue to threaten the weakest, oldest, and youngest among us…actual people whom some elitists believe do not deserve to live. Oh yes, it’s ugly but that’s all the more reason for
Stephen Colbert interviews graduate student Thomas Herndon who discovered in writing a paper for his professor that the spreed sheets used to justify the benefits of austerity measures contain faulty numbers, plus, the much-cited Growth in a Time of Debt by Rogoff and Reinhart completely leaves out the improved economies of Australia and others in order to further support their faulty conclusions
Mercurial Thoughts on Uranian Progress
by Jude Cowell
Based on Ronald Wright’s 2005 book, A Short History of Progress which includes Sumer, Rome, Easter Island, and the Maya with a theme of ‘civilization is a pyramid scheme’, here’s Part One (14 minutes) of a presentation, Surviving Progress:
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September 15, 2012: Additional Mercurial Thoughts on Election Day 2012
by Jude Cowell
As the second issue of Stars Over Washingotn Monthly is being typed, my natal Mercury in Capricorn is naturally busy studying many political horoscopes and keeping up as best I can during this fast-paced period with all the Politics I can manage to watch, read, and consider–all provinces of Mercury.
Romney-McCain-Palin and Those Dag Dabbit Tax Returns
by Jude Cowell
Well, I almost titled this post: Cheater-Geezer-Quitter but I’d better not…
John McCain "personally vouches" for Mitt Romney’s tax returns! Even though in 2008, McCain wasn’t actually involved in the vetting process for his Vice Presidential pick, one of which was Mitt The Bainster Romney who, it is said, released years of
Representative Paul Ryan, whose draconian budget plan is primarily aimed at the older, younger, and weaker among us (easy targets!), has come up against formidable foes of the Catholic bishop persuasion who’ve disputed his claims of the plan’s Catholic origin. As well they should.
Not-So-News Flash: Ayn Rand Was Not Her Brother’s Keeper
Well, here’s a tinge of Astrology concerning the
Are you stalwart and curious enough to get through this entire self-important film with the screenplay written by the novel’s author herself, Ayn Rand, the primary ‘objectivist’ psychopath followed by modern-day acolytes with the win-at-any-cost attitude such as Rep. Paul Ryan?Oh dear! Then you’re in for it now so cue up the video for Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, and Raymond Burr star in, The
“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.”
–Kung Fu Monkey
Transcript and audio of SOTU 2011 @ NPR.Are you trying to remember who Paul Ryan (R-WI) is and where he came from? So was I until my friend Alex D’Atria sent me this excerpt from Katrina vanden Heuvel’s article in The Washington Post explaining Ryan’s past connections and where he got that little ole insulated viewpoint of his.Excerpt:Ryan is an Ayn Rand-quoting zealot, one of the Republican