January 25, 2008 – 10:13 am
The first blog post I made questioned whether joining online forums solely dedicated to the discussion of Ayn Rand could be considered “consistent” with objectivist principles. The reason I made the post was because I have long struggled with the boundaries between “leading” and “following.” The idea of participating in a community, online or offline, [...]
January 23, 2008 – 10:31 am
Warning – this is a disorganized rant.
Israel’s foreign policy is inherently flawed and unreasonable because it is too moderate, and because it is too focussed on a diplomatic peace that will never come.
In 1967, Israel was attacked (sadly a common occurrence). Not by a single enemy, but by all of its neighbors in the Middle [...]
January 19, 2008 – 6:36 pm
Jeff Neugebauer Unveiled Choices in Feb of 2006.
““Choices” is an allegorical painting about love, and passion. Wine serves as a metaphor for the object of desire. In “Choices”, [...]
January 19, 2008 – 6:26 pm
It doesn’t take an economist to recognize the shortcomings of immature, unprincipled, hedonistic economic policy.
Let’s give big tax cuts without cutting spending
Let’s rack up the national debt
Let’s engage in wars of choice with oil-rich countries
Let’s refrain from building oil-processing infrastructure
Let’s watch inflation increase, the value of the dollar decrease, and let’s watch US Companies beg [...]
January 12, 2008 – 7:41 am
A primitive animal living in a modern society
New shirt, new home, new car, new life
Same animal, same drive to survive
So evolved you cannot evolve
Life, or subsistence living?
January 12, 2008 – 7:20 am
For some reason I find this picture, and everything it represents, quite chilling…