my c at does the exact same thing. He loves the bathroom and everything that goes on in it.

I agree. There are those occasional inspiring bits which are very seductive, especially to not particularly discerning minds. I know someone who was inspired by Rand to ditch the blue collar expectations of his family and pursue higher education. He is a firm Objectivist and frankly, an asshole. But jeah, she gave him…

It really is an adolescent fantasy of 'keepin it real' and 'all the ladies want my body'.

Don't forget how he worked as laborer while he kept his vision alive and the rich lady ogled him, or how everyone else's ideas were so epically dramatically stupid.

I saw my furry friend on pet finder when I was sort of looking for a cat. He was furry and cross eyed. I met him in vets office. He jumped into my lap, put his face next to mine, licked it, and went ' PURRRRRR!!!' We've been together ever since and he is the most easy going loving cuddle slut kitty Ive ever had. I…

'Objectification, and the implications for women and their self image ' is garden variety feminist stuff. What I mean is well illustrated by this particular article - Beyonce doesn't know where the fuck she is or what is the site's significance in the history of art. It's just a fashion/ lifestyle shoot. Jezebel picks…

err, given that sex work is a huge industry, sex work is a conventional job.

THIS

Yah, clueless wide eyed naiveté about the consequences of writing about her former life as a sex worker doesn;t convince me she's got enough sense to be a teacher.

This. The combination of naiveté, impulsiveness and cluelessness is more worrying to me than the sex work. She didn't know publishing about her past would cost her her teaching job? Didn;t consider using a pseudonym? I think she was fired for lack of judgement as much as anything else.

no one considers her a novelist of note either.

It was quite diabolically shrewd of her to target a popular audience rather than a critical one by framing her ideas with gut level familiar Homeric Heroes. Her narratives place the protagonists within a fictional framework where success of her ideas and thus their proof is guaranteed. I think she used the fictional…

Her ideas appeal to adolescent emotions and yearning for independence, her narratives place the protagonists within a fictional framework where success of her ideas in guaranteed. If Rand had tried to find an audience for her ideas within Philosophy she would have made herself a laughingstock. It's quite shrewd of her…

she would call them second handers, because they swallowed her ideas wholesale without consideration. Nevermind that she misunderstood and misinterpreted a bunch of philosophers' ideas and then passed that drivel off as her own thought.

"as a Senator, he should be far more wealthy than he is."

Not only does she not get the artistic point of the Elmgreen and Dragset project. She also doesn't get that as far as artist projects go, it's a really bad one. One of the things I really dislike about Jezebel is the unqualified, unconsidered celebration of consumerism, especially 'feminine' consumerism seen as a way…

My reaction is strong too. Fuck off Prada and Beyonce. The sort of people who are into Prada Marfa are the people who think art and fashion are synonymous and that Donald Judds make great decoration. Seriously, fuck off you lot. And yeah, I know its a Elmgreen and Dragset project.

it's nowhere near as ridiculous or childish as NBC's though.

I think the difference is that this sort of patriotism is rare in the UK, at least it's never expressed. If you go around waving a flag people will think you're bonkers or a raging racist. Also, Mo Farah has been track star in the UK for 10 years and he's their golden boy of multiculturalism. If anything the BBC…

meh. As far as animal videos go this one is lacklustre.