“When You Grow Up, You Work. You Don't 'Have Fun'”
Jeez, Dad, why sugar-coat everything? No, he didn't; he served it black, his philosophy of life, and there you have it. This post is about work, the endless project of my youth.Because I said I had...
View ArticleAuckland Transport's Big Party
Affordable Auckland’s Stephen Berry has today hit out at Auckland Transport for the One Team party held for employees and their guests at The Cloud on Saturday. “Ratepayers sent a very clear message in...
View Article"The Money-Making Personality," by Ayn Rand (original version from...
Ayn Rand's article for the April 1963 issue of Cosmopolitan, "The Money-Making Personality," was one of my favorite for its color, passion, and professionalism of popular writing. I bought the issue on...
View ArticleKASS Music Gem—Luciano Pavarotti/Lindsay Perigo: Full Interview
My thanks to highly talented singing student Rory Sweeney for obtaining and posting this:
View ArticleThe who's that versus Keynes promotion
Charles Kahlenberg, who has done a number of book recordings for Macmillan, was desirous to produce Shakespeare Versus Keynes. I think it is an excellent recording and offer here twenty free downloads...
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Islamofascism And The Age Of Treason
"In the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or...
View ArticleRob Lowe asks what it is that so riles people about Rand
The Hollywood actor (star of shows such as The West Wing), Rob Lowe, asks: http://www.theobjectivestandar...“Can someone explain the vitriol whenever Ayn Rand comes up? ‘Atlas’ is the greatest...
View ArticleBrotherhood and Paradise
The key to achieving 1) universal happiness and creating a social utopia is the same as that of achieving 2) maximum social cohesion and harmony, along with human solidarity and unity, and the...
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Stupifying
In the Game of Life, it's genuinely hard to: 1) determine the meaning and purpose of existence; 2) find work which is satisfying, and friends which are of high quality, and lovers who are long-term...
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How To Make A Lifelong Objectivist?
I have been absent from SOLO for a few weeks, writing a new book. Now it is published. It is the book I always knew I would write, about my boyhood in a small town in New England in the years...
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The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Four days ago marked the 40th anniversary of the last Gabriel-era Genesis album "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway". Thought I might share this concept album with everyone here. I've been listening to...
View ArticleSCHOPENHAUER ON KANT
I write the post in order to recommend Schopenhauer to Soloists. Specifically, the Appendix to his magnum opus, The World as Will and Representation. Now why should this be of interest to Soloists? The...
View ArticleSwitzerland Votes For Freedom To Earn
Switzerland Votes For Freedom To Earn By Edward HudginsNovember 27, 2013 -- This week in a national referendum, 65 percent of Swiss voters rejected a measure that would have limited CEO salaries to...
View ArticleObamacare Stealth Tax Increases
I'm a long term "S" Corp contractor, been paying taxes on the value of my self provided health insurance for years. A family plan that covered everything in the 80s was maybe $325/mo. By 2011, when my...
View ArticleUbermarx Obamarx
I have referred for some time to The Anti-American President as "Obamarx," for obvious reasons. I have argued that Obamarx's "abuses and usurpations" have taken America well beyond the point where the...
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Gender Still Matters
A picture is worth a thousand words:Notice the location of the woman symbol and fist where one would normally find the testicles of the bull.I need to learn that not every forum welcomes the kinds of...
View Article"Submission Complete" At Harvard: Quranic Teachings Promoted As Epitome Of...
Earlier this year the US' pre-eminent school of law posted a verse of the Holy Quran at the entrance of its law faculty.The verse reads:“O ye who believe! Stand out firmly for justice, as witnesses...
View ArticleTime to Mothball Wynyard Quarter Tram
“I’m more horrified than surprised at plans by Auckland Council to extend the failed Wynyard Quarter tram service and connect it to Britomart,” says Affordable Auckland Leader Stephen Berry. “The idea...
View ArticleFDA Stopping the Genetics Revolution
FDA Stopping the Genetics Revolution By Edward HudginsDecember 11, 2013 — Entrepreneurs look to limitless possibilities while government regulators look to limit possibilities.That’s the stark contrast...
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