George Carlin was a great comedian. If you consider this to be an oxymoron, or you don't know who he was, or you don't care whether he's dead or alive, please ignore this thread.
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Emily Merrill graduates Magna Cum Laude from Smith College Posted by Adam Reed
on 5/21, 8:11pm
Last weekend my step-daughter Emily Merrill, daughter of the late Ron Merrill and of Yoon Merrill, graduated Magna Cum Laude from Smith College. She is, at 19, one of the youngest graduates in her class. There has been some debate in this forum about growing young people in Randian families, and since Emily is a case...(Read more...)
Originally, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation had planned to replace the towers of the World Trade Center with a horrible design by pomo architect Daniel Libeskind. It was an asymmetrical, empty-looking shard of glass with an unsatisfying spire at its peak. The new design looks much better.(Read more...)
"Because he refuses to cloak the reality of the world’s suffering in a cloying fantasy of eternal life, the atheist feels in his bones just how precious life is -- and, indeed, how unfortunate it is that millions of human beings suffer the most harrowing abridgements of their happiness for no good reason at all. ... As...(Read more...)
The Washington Times on October 5th featured a major piece on page 2 on Atlas Shrugged and on The Atlas Society's 50th anniversary celebration. Check it out!(Read more...)
