Joe Pulitzer would be proud. One of the fathers of yellow journalism, he loved sensationalism, scandal, and populist rants. His intellectual heirs carry on his work at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Of course, it is a dystopian view of what can happen if you fail to have any sort of moral compass, but its a very compelling game and I know quite a few people who decided to pick up Rand's works based on snippets of Objectivism found in bioshock. An quote from the game: -------- I am Andrew Ryan and I am here t...(Read more...)
I'm not sure if this guy is for real or not. If he is trying to play satire he's terrible at it. If his conviction is honest, he's merely a dope. This certainly does not fit as a news item, but Rand is mentioned so I thought best to place it here.(Read more...)
In Newsweek: "As Washington's economic dictator says in Ayn Rand's far-sighted novel Atlas Shrugged, 'We've got to stand still. We've got to make those bastards stand still!'" (Read more...)
I subscribe to "Dumb Little Man" on my iGoogle homepage. It's a blog that shares sundry tips here and there. Anyway, tonight there was the blog entry titled "So What Really Is the Meaning of Life?" Being the Philosophically-minded person I am, I couldn't resist clicking it. http://www.dumblittleman.com/2008/05/s...(Read more...)