Re: Convero Chicago radio talk-show host Erich Muller gets waterboarded - Throwns in toy cow after 6-7 seconds!
- From: "Ouroboros Rex" <its@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 11:05:57 -0500
°cg° wrote:
On Wed, 27 May 2009 16:57:06 -0400, Buzz <buzzard99@xxxxxxx> wrote:
It IS the dogg.
It's also making my rereading of Atlas Shrugged all the more
realistic. What plainly is, isn't and what plainly isn't, is. Andy
Rooney's new religion. Forced sacrifice. Sunbeams from cucumbers.
The book was good the first time I read it. Someones' taking the
time to poke fun at the book or Ayn Rand in their signature (Ditty
perhaps?) sparked an interest to read it again. It's even better
this time.
I can see how it would make those who worship at the alter of
"fairness" or clamour for a government solution to their
unhappiness, or worse yet, the happiness of someone else, very
uncomfortable, though.
I've skipped Ayn Rand's books. Well, except for when I started "Atlas
Shrugged" and found it of little interest. That was so long ago that
I don't exactly remember what turned me off but I put it down and
never returned.
I do know that I didn't make it past the first chapter. I'm think it
might have been her writing style. Same problem with Steven King's
writing style.
I made it a little more than 2/3 the way through. It took me that long to
understand that Rand's world falls apart once you extract the absolutes.
But that is just me. "Atlas Shrugged" seems to have a very real
impact on many. Maybe it was just a timing deal. As in, not the
right time for me to read it. I might feel differently if I were to
read it today since the first time was decades ago. Heck my age
wasn't even in the double digits when she wrote it.
You can get pretty much the same fix, presented a lot more honestly, by
reading her short novel
_Anthem_.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthem_(novella)
I did finally read "Catcher in the Rye". I was supposed to read it
for my High School Senior English class. I skipped it then and should
have skipped it the second time as well. Much ado over not much in
these days.
OTOH, I did read "Starship Troopers" and found it worth the effort.
Just barely though. On the whole the movie was a lot more fun.
That surprises me. I thought the novel expressed a good number of
important principles that the movie apparently left on the cutting-room
floor. I was bitterly disappointed in the movie and have only seen it once
since seeing it in the theater. At the time, I almost asked for my money
back, but I had already sat through the whole thing waiting for the missing
moral.
.
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