... Everyone I've known who's read Rand and that she's had a big impact on their life (and that's everyone I know who's read her, since who would ever finish ...
... I don't think most orthodox Objectivists are doing fine. (For here, I will operationally define an O-O as someone who could pass a Peikoff Purity Test. If...
... I also mentioned that, simultaneous with the spitting, Lenny the Love God was in favor of nuking the entire Middle East (I think, actually, that he was in...
... 24 is my favorite soap opera. I love how they stop in the middle of preventing the bomb from going off that will blow up LA to deal with Jack's girlfriend...
... Uh...all you have to do is read Rand to tell she was one railroad tie short of a sleeper car. She wrote novels. Thus, she put her deepest, darkest, most...
Mike Lee writes: "Ok, Michael, I'll stop wearing me lack of education like a badge of honor you stop with the run-on sentences." Michael: This last post...
The new issue of Atlas Magazine is out. http://www.russellmadden.com/Atlas_Magazine.html "I Belong to Me" was a piece submitted to NPR's "I Believe This"...
... A few months ago you were wondering is there a middle way between religion and philosophy. I'm curious if you have found answer to the question? And what...
Marcin, It wouldn't be quite right to say I don't believe in "spirit." I think what you meant was I don't believe in a mystical idea of spirit. For more,...
I should've been more accurate in my comment about NB not believing in "spirit", as he corrects me. I should have said that Wilber is a mystic, NB is not. Duh....
Rich, I noticed a particular method of analysis with you--i.e. you have no qualms about pretending like certain facts do not exist. If you are interested in...
Michael, with typical Ortho-Objectivist verve, rhetorically spanks the ... That's all. I have no other response. I just wanted a place to hang that "spank the...
... Seriously, Michael, are you serious? Before moving on to LP's (isn't it sinister that his initials are the same as the Libertarian Party's?) idiotic,...
Mike Lee writes: "You can slice and dice and parse and evade all you want, but Lenny the Loon was advocating nuking Iran. Ok, maybe not nuking them if JDAMs,...
Michael M., Quite frankly, I'm getting a bit fed up with the nasty style of "discussion" here. I've asked several times, PLEASE, keep it respectful/civil/etc....
When I saw that LP was going to be on CNN, I found myself at that time to be (pathetically) excited because, while I never got much traction out of LP, at...
Hello Nathaniel and everybody. This is Michael Stuart Kelly (MSK). I'll be checking in from time to time, but I just wanted to say "hi" for now. There are...
... Those appearances in those days were, so far, the nadir of Objectivist credibility. No, they were worse than that. They were the Nader of Objectivist...
... E, gimme a D, LIED. I've got a copy of her public renunciation bravo on a bravura piece of writing, mike. just in case any cult-like entities decide to...
Mike Brown writes: "[Question:] If you are discussing an issue with someone, is it proper not to volunteer the whole truth?" "[Answer:] That is a very vicious...
Mike Lee: "The Brandens had it in their power at that moment to destroy Objectivism, and they had every reason to, and they didn't. Say thank you, you O-O...
... Think through this scary alternate history scenario: Rand noisily, publicly and *in writing* denounces NB, vaguely hinting at horrible moral defects, ...
... Name another. Seriously, Michael, I'd like to know who else who isn't a nutjob has had this reaction. Mike Lee The Objectivist Amish are coming to turn you...
Mike Lee, I will answer your question, no problem. But are you EVER going to answer mine, which I posited numerous times, or are you going to keep shamefully...