Vox

Musings, rants, rambling, general nonsense

Who Is John Galt?

Though we won’t actually “meet” John Galt till part 3 of Atlas Shrugged – which it now appears they will have the momentum to produce – his speech is one of the greatest expositions of what is good & right & moral about freedom & this country that was built on it. In the book […]

Limo *Drink*

…it’s the Atlas Shrugged drinking game I went to see this with a group; we had all levels of interest from “never read the book, no familiarity with Rand or Objectivism” to “read the book several times and have passages memorized” I am in the middle of that spectrum, having read the book 20-some years […]

“Well—business as usual, Mr. Ward!”

Book List

Stolen from @Hawthorne, even though he didn’t tag me. 😉 Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES◊. Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read an excerpt. Tag other book nerds. Tag me as well so I can see your responses! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ 1. Pride and Prejudice […]

It Can’t Happen Here?

A post at Big Government, reminding us of Sinclair Lewis’s prescient book, It Can’t Happen Here, gives us the comment of the day: What are you talking about Zak? The electorate in this country would have to consist of fools for something like this to happen. It would take a generation of people dumbed down […]

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