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Today I went swimming in a swimming pool.  I'm nice and clean.  I wish I could do that everyday! ... (Read the entire blog entry)

I picked the following quotes because of the unique response that they could have on the socialist mindset. It's not just what you say, but how you say it.

I remind my blog readers here that I'm a former zealot-Christian-socialist, and that when I first heard about Rand -- that she promoted selfishness -- I experienced moral revulsion and a deep fear of her (bordering on hate). Even after purchasing the Ayn Rand Lexicon, I avoided the "A" section like the plague (because it contained "abortion" and "atheism").

Using the point that how you say it is about as important as what it is that you have to say, I looked at quotes with a narrow aim. These quotes are meant to appeal to the mind without stirring up the emotional revulsion so common -- perhaps universal -- to the socialist mindset of which I was once a willing victim.

If I had first been approached with these quotes -- instead of being just told to read some Rand -- then my "persuasion" wouldn't have taken the precious months that it did. (Read the entire blog entry)

From "My Future File,"  The Ayn Rand Letter (Read the entire blog entry)

Something I had to do first, in order to be able to press on and finish reading this book ... (Read the entire blog entry)

Photoshop reduces stress. (Read the entire blog entry)

Dr. Yates J. Canipe shows, with a touch of self-serving humor, how our current president uses covert hypnosis on the masses. (Read the entire blog entry)

Burt Rutan's Earthship One was the first "unexpected and unconventional approaches" rewarded by the Ansari X-Prize Foundation.  (Read the entire blog entry)

Obama supporter thinks he's acting "smart" with Iranian protest situation.  (Kudos to Charles Krauthammer) (Read the entire blog entry)

A critical view of a recent article (regarding charities) in a local newspaper. (Read the entire blog entry)

An answer to 'moral equivalence.' (Read the entire blog entry)