Absolutely agree: if you want objectivism in 60 pages, read Anthem. I wish I could say I found the reclamation of the first person as cheesy as you did, but I was fifteen and stupid at the time and I thought it was brilliant. :/

Clean up your shit and get a roommate or two. Nobody makes enough at your age and skill level to live alone, and you're going to need to learn to share a home someday, might as well be now. And get your ass back in school asap: hopefully you can see now that no matter how much college sucks, real life without a…

Warning: real talk.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that was a troll.

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Wait wait back up a second. An objectivist scholarship? An objectivist … scholarship. You mean, giving your own money away to somebody else who hasn't given you anything of value in return?

I love that quote to death, but I'm going to argue that the book that *actually* changes young objectivists' lives is not Atlas Shrugged, but Anthem.

I read the whole thing. It ends with this 50-page monologue delivered on a train, right?

I was a kid in the early '80s, and no, MTV was not very widespread on its first day, because only about one in five American households had cable TV. But kids knew about it almost from day one, and by 1984 or so, it was the leading source of whining to your parents about "why can't we get cable?"

Any more MASH jokes on the radar, or are we done here?

I dunno about young men, but I'll tell you my Dad lost a couple thousand bucks on a Betamax home video camera.

My biggest frustration with this movie is that it's a great kids' movie, except it's totally not. It alternates sight gags and wordplay with anal sex jokes and '70s pop culture references.

"… and Deja Vu."

It's tough to recommend things to friends that you *really* like: it's hard for them to get into it when you're sitting there wearing this expectant puppy-dog face.

Also, the sheer *density* of jokes. Your average minute of Top Secret has more sight gags and ridiculous wordplay than any given half-hour of an Adam Sandler movie.

…. and Deja Vu.
"Haven't we met before?"

… and Deja Vu.
"Haven't we met before?"

This comment makes me feel a) really old, and b) a little impressed. Glad you had the sense to choose this and not, say, "Spies Like Us".

Aren't Times Square Elmos already tripping, as a rule?

The American electorate:
College-educated pinko lefties: 15%
Black and proud and actually voting: 10%
Terrified union goons: 10%
People who aren't paying attention: 20%
Racist rednecks: 15%
Small businessmen who would-be billionaires: 10%
Spittle-spewing bible-thumpers: 20%