I think the deal is: Rorschach was Alan Moore's interpretation of characters created by Steve Ditko; Ditko was committed to Randian Objectivism and his comics often espoused Objectivist philosophy.

Wow, you Libertarians are certainly for.

Wow, you Libertarians are certainly for.

"Giving him ORAL" will haunt my dreams forever.

"Giving him ORAL" will haunt my dreams forever.

The great part about that is that you could apply that same sort of analysis to this video and conclude that it's part of some program towards homosexual-communist mind control (rainbow letters, mass transit, sexually-explicit lyrics, etc.).

The great part about that is that you could apply that same sort of analysis to this video and conclude that it's part of some program towards homosexual-communist mind control (rainbow letters, mass transit, sexually-explicit lyrics, etc.).

want a sandwich? have a sandwich.

want a sandwich? have a sandwich.

I was just at Bluestockings - NYC's best and probably only anarcha-feminist bookstore - and they're doing a reading-group thing with "The Dispossessed" right now; maybe Le Guin is just in the air for some reason…

I was just at Bluestockings - NYC's best and probably only anarcha-feminist bookstore - and they're doing a reading-group thing with "The Dispossessed" right now; maybe Le Guin is just in the air for some reason…

@GhaleonQ:disqus  - FYI I wasn't trying to challenge you specifically (yours is the last comment that can be replied to in this particular, um, nest), and I haven't seen Waiting for "Superman" myself so I can't comment on how well Ravitch's article actually engages with the film; I was just pointing to her response as…

@GhaleonQ:disqus  - FYI I wasn't trying to challenge you specifically (yours is the last comment that can be replied to in this particular, um, nest), and I haven't seen Waiting for "Superman" myself so I can't comment on how well Ravitch's article actually engages with the film; I was just pointing to her response as…

I've said it before and I'll say it again - I highly recommend Diane Ravitch's response to Waiting for "Superman"…

I've said it before and I'll say it again - I highly recommend Diane Ravitch's response to Waiting for "Superman"…

An honest question: how seriously are we to take the whole Death in June fascist affiliation thing? My sense of it is that they were kind of into Nazi iconography as a transgressive performance-art sort of deal but weren't committed to the ideology; but, I  don't know the whole history.

An honest question: how seriously are we to take the whole Death in June fascist affiliation thing? My sense of it is that they were kind of into Nazi iconography as a transgressive performance-art sort of deal but weren't committed to the ideology; but, I  don't know the whole history.

Not to jinx it, but this album sounds amazing. In my unscientific estimation, "The Drift" is one of the best albums ever, and it didn't even have any songs about Nicolae Ceausescu, vivisectionists, or "the coldest sub-stellar body in the universe discovered so far"; this one does.

Not to jinx it, but this album sounds amazing. In my unscientific estimation, "The Drift" is one of the best albums ever, and it didn't even have any songs about Nicolae Ceausescu, vivisectionists, or "the coldest sub-stellar body in the universe discovered so far"; this one does.

Scott Walker's music is probably about as terrifying as music can get while still being reasonably categorized as "pop."