Note to self: don’t bother saving seat for Rand Rover in lifeboat.
Rand Rover, due to his excellent decision-making abilities, learned to swim when he was seven months old, and due to years spent building his exceptional physique and stamina, he doesn’t need your lifeboat, you SOCIALIST!!!
Rand Rover, as a civil libertarian whose belief system is derived from an assumption of self and inductive recognition of others as sentient, sapient individuals, who genuinely believes that humanity is best served by acknowledging and respecting the equality and rights of those individuals, I hereby request that you stop making it appear as though these beliefs are held only by raging assholes. Individualism most assuredly does NOT boil down to “look out for number one, and fuck the rest of you.” Believing in the human right to act like a narcissistic jerk in no way obligates you to actually do so.
Choices have consequences, and responsibility for those lies with the one doing the choosing. That doesn’t mean the rest of us have right to pass judgment. For that matter, we can even feel and express sympathy, and lend a helping hand where we can, out of the sense of our own, innately human, fallibility. Give it a shot sometime, will you?
Nope. The ice chest will do, after you cook him over the fire on the beach.
Ice chest?! Note to self: do not let Cervaise determine contents of my lifeboat. Instead of fishing gear we’ll end up with brandy snifters or something.
I was going to write that the AV Club has better trolls when I remembered Herbert Kornfeld (R.I.P.). I will picture Rand Rover with a moustache and tie from now on whenever I read his posts.
H.K. represent!
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/25852
Roland, i wouldn’t worry.
Even us non-libertarians try, for the most part, the hold people responsible only for their own thoughts and actions, and not the thoughts and actions of other people who happen to share their general philosophy.
I’ve met and hung out with a bunch of libertarians during my time in the States. I’ve been to a few small conferences run by a libertarian organization in the DC area, and i’ve even received a small fellowship from them to help with my research a few years back.
Just about everyone i encountered on those occasions has been a perfectly decent person, and for the most part seemed genuinely concerned about the best way to organize (or not, as the case may be) society in such a way that the most people benefit. They demonstrated genuine compassion for the poor and the destitute, and not one had the sort of “I’ve got mine, so fuck everyone else” attitude that Rand Rover so happily adopts.
Show some compassioni plzthx 
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I didn’t see that. Sorry. If it’s still open, then let me think some more about the new terms. The $250k number is important to me (because that’s how Obama sold the plan), so if it is hard to get data for people above and below that exact number, then I may not be interested in the bet anymore. Thanks for following up.
I invite anyone who hasn’t read Ayn Rand to do so rather than take Rover’s interpretation of it seriously.
I always thought tax lawyers were those who couldn’t hack litigation.
And that reminds me, anu-la1979, I had better go through tonight’s brief to get rid of the way too many “clearlys” that are in there. Bad, bad habit.
Heh. Thanks, mhendo, but my point was more rhetorical than directed at any association I thought folks around here genuinely made. That said, offboard, associating individuals with their own thoughts and actions rather than a given convenient label is a rarer trait than you or I might like to think, as you’ve no doubt noticed. S’one of the reasons I hang out here.
It’s also worth noting that I adopted the term “civil libertarian” to describe my overall beliefs succinctly without undue association with the Libertarian Party, who tend to take economic conservativism (specifically, privatization) to an extent I don’t feel is morally necessary or particularly wise. Doesn’t seem to have worked, but that’s my failing, not yours. Back to the drawing board…
I’ve heard roast jackass can be really stringy if not properly prepared.
If you can’t post examples of my misinterpretation of Ayn Rand then just drop it. Just because you don’t like me personally doesn’t mean I have misinterpreted Ayn Rand.
No, we’re those who are too smart for litigation.
Those accounts payabo motherfuckers better step off! (Or something. I haven’t read HK in years.)
One does not read Ayn Rand, one slogs Ayn Rand. Some books test intelligence or insight, hers test for endurance. Her characters never just say anything, they never scratch their butt, they strike poses and intone interminably. Through the swamp, you trudge, trudge, trudge…
Mark Twain once said that Henry James wrote like he was performing a painful duty. He said the Book of Mormon was “chloroform as printed word”. A pity he could not have given us a critique of Ayn Rand.
Yes, it’s hard to read things you are not intelligent enough to understand.
Ironically, in your ideal world you wouldn’t have your oh-so-fundamental job.
Seriously? Dude, it’s Ayn Rand. I’ve never met a grown person who takes Ayn Rand seriously. It’s thousands of pages of adolescent aggrandizment fantasy.