Right. Personally, I don't even like the idea of "placing oneself above the herd," though I think Rand would have endorsed that phrasing and I'm sure other Objectivists would, too. I hate that mentality.

Just as a point of clarification…

That scene is a can of worms in the Objectivist community, though it shouldn't be. It's rape.

Not gonna call you names for being wrong, but it's certainly not Objectivism. Per Objectivist Ethics, a person should strive to live the best and happiest life he can and respect that others will do the same. Neither harm nor allow oneself to be harmed. Sadism (meaning de Sade's philosophy, according to that quote…

I have a lot of practice at that sort of thing, going back years. How many Neverending Story films are there? Just the one. Does Disney ever make ill-advised, straight-to-disc sequels to its classic films, like Cinderella or Peter Pan? It does not. And the original Star Trek had the craziest film numbering system…

Except that you're wrong. Wrong in your premises (as for instance that Objectivists stiff waiters, or treat their workers poorly, or don't act charitably; none of these are true, to say nothing of whether or not an Objectivist would try to save a child's life) and wrong in your conclusions (that I'm a shitty person).

I know you're not looking for an honest answer — or an answer of any kind, really. But you've asked, so:

I get what you're saying and I agree. I didn't mean to imply that most or all people working in news have conscious agendas (though some probably do). What I meant by "bias" extends to some more subtle stuff, perhaps. But I believe that how we see the world generally (including political leanings, even when you…

I dunno if this is strange coming from a self-described "Objectivist," but…

I think in many cases if people weren't reading their preferred YA, they wouldn't be reading at all.

I'd like to recommend the film "The Last Supper."

If he didn't misremember — and I think he did not, though I could be wrong — then I think it does suggest an ongoing pattern, because the claim to misremember would itself be a lie. And then there is the lie itself, its duration and prominence… (Is an ongoing deception, repeated several times, properly considered…

I think it's the theme from the porn parody "Bareback to the Future."

The only thing we have left to believe in is that Ronald Reagan tore down the Berlin Wall with his bare-fuckin'-hands.

It may seem silly, but I'm kind of heartbroken about this. Brian Williams is awesome, but this… this is hard to understand. And from what I've read elsewhere (though maybe there's more to the story), apparently he's claiming now that this wasn't an intentional lie, but somehow he just got confused… somehow…? That…

A lot of CBS is this way. Affirming that the mainstream is right by putting sub-cultures down. If someone shows up on one of their eighteen bajillion procedurals and is, I dunno, a "hacker" or a "brony" (or whatever the CBS crowd would recognize as those things), you can be sure that they're also a sociopath with…

I watched Heroes to the bitter, bitter end. The very idea of a Heroes reboot is physically distressing. Is it possible for a TV show to give you PTSD?

Hey, if all orcs don't want to kill people, I just don't understand why the more moderate orcs don't speak up…

Also orcs.

This is a stock joke.