http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/04/27/ayn.rand.atlas.shrugged/index.html
The article is above! 
“Greed and sheer capitalism”?
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Oh good! 
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Well Jack, I’d be interested in hearing what an Ayn Rand devotee thinks about this current financial mess and how her philos (i couldn’t finish) fits in.
Moderator, clean up in Aisle 9. Thread needs moved to the PROCT forum.
Yeah, it’s gettin’ there. We’ll wait and see if folks have found the Handi-Wipes, can be bothered to use them without crying, and can talk in their indoor voices. So far so good.
Sometimes there’s nothing quite so beautiful as the sound of crickets. You know.
Only East Coast people have gotten home from work.
Point taken. Well, I have to take off; got a class to lead. I’ll check in later and see.
Oh, yeah: hey, MTGuru? If you’re around and it needs The Stark Broom of Oppression…YOU do it. 
I posted it here because it’s a discussion about an American literary hero and one of the best-selling books of all time.
Badmouth her philosophy and her person all you want, but you can’t dispute the success she and the book has achieved and are still achieving. It is success well-earned.
Atlas Shrugged (and its author) see resurgence
Hooray.
That’s a cute picture. Who is it?
I never saw Atlas shug.
Some day I’ll have to read that book. Went into a used bookstore to look for it once.
I’d have to say that she’s not seeing much of a resurgence herself, personally. Death kind of puts a damper on that sort of thing.
Redwolf
As more and more people examine and consider her views on life in this crazy world we live in, in a very real (though non-literal) way, Ayn Rand herself is seeing a huge resurgence. Of course she’s dead, but her ideas (the main focus of her life, she was a philosopher/writer, after all) are anything but. There are, as I write this, numerous books, movies, and other projects being created based on her life, her legacy, and her ideas, especially as presented through Atlas Shrugged, which is being turned into a new movie.
I mean, Angelina Jolie is playing Dagny Taggart. You don’t get more alive than Angelina Jolie. 
I’m pretty sure “Joe” is wearing a skirt. Or maybe a skort.
Why do all retro people look like that? Did the same person draw every one all around the world?
I’m totally jealous of his legs. Look how LONG they are!!!
But he “is a real he-man, afterall”- this, in spite of the skort.
I also have very long legs. As a child, my parents and siblings taunted me as “the ostrich,” which I now find funny. But it does make some situations difficult, like getting in a car. 
My kid is only 5’9" but wears 34" length pants. 32/34, which can only be ordered and not bought cheaply at places like Kohl’s.
If he wished to wear a skort, like Joe, the long legs would not pose a problem.
Well, my legs are short. I suppose having really long legs would be odd, though, since I’m only about 5’3" on a good day. In other words, I won’t be wearing Joe’s skort any time soon