You sir, have just initiated a war. You like Ayn Rand but hate Whitman!? And they're letting you raise a child??!?

HAHAHAHA, I don't like the Transcendentalists. Might I quip, though, that I have read them. Have you actually read Rand? (It's possible-for me at least-to enjoy/appreciate the books without drinking the kool-aid and voting for Romney.)

Anyway, my real response to you is found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDqq_1...

Oh, I read Atlas Shrugged three times through, without sleeping, then I read it as a palindrome, and then acrostically, to see what hidden gems of wisdom Rand hid in her complexly-wrought visionary tale of the future of moral mankind (just who is this ubermensch John Galt, anyway? who? who? sexier than John Hamm, richer than Willam R. Hearst, manlier than a mountain of Rumsfelds), and then I studied Objectivism until I was so overwhelmed with inspiration that I took to the highways and backroads, setting up traps and schemes and cons to rob my weaker and less deserving fellow "human beings" (aka leeches) of their pocket money, and inventing multiple pyramid schemes to take from the wealthier (if they were as highly evolved as I, they would have done this themselves, the only victims are the lazy). And then I went to each separate voting district in the mid-Atlantic, wearing a fresh disguise at each poll, and voted for Mitt Romney 500+ times under various pseudonyms, BECAUSE MITT ROMNEY IS AYN RAND'S WET DREAM COME TO LIFE!

Geoff wrote: "Oh, I read Atlas Shrugged three times through, without sleeping, then I read it as a palindrome, and then acrostically, to see what hidden gems of wisdom Rand hid in her complexly-wrought visionary..."

You're gonna get me in trouble: as a lowly professor now rather than the director of a whole service area, I'm in a cubicle rather than my own spacious office. I have gotten a few "looks" from my colleagues about the nasal snorts and guffaws that have been coming out of my office. Plus, only partly your fault, I've been muttering to myself "Leaves of Grass, my ass!"

Geoff wrote: "You sir, have just initiated a war. You like Ayn Rand but hate Whitman!? And they're letting you raise a child??!?"

Ha! Sorry, that was funny. Carry on.

Well I mean of course "Leaves of Grass my ass" is classic... and it gets in your head. I'll be saying that over and over and over today...

take that ww