I just had Willie Jackson on the phone, ringing in person 'cos his staff were too scared to after the last "Lie to Lie" debacle. Anyway, the upshot is, I'll be on this Sunday's programme, guaranteed.

This looks to be a Must see.

Ayn Rand Institute Press Release

July 22, 2008
 
Irvine, CA--The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a $550,000 indecency fine against CBS Corp. for the infamous Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction" during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show.

So you're thinking of voting for Labour? After nine years of the same old faces, you don't think it's time for a change?

Hat-tip: Samizdata

I've just finished reading Nigel Lawson's An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming.

SOLO-NZ Press Release: The Soul of a Socialist

July 21, 2008

Corpulent communist Chris Trotter usually manages to disguise his hatred of achievers and cloak his Bolshevik bromides with an ostensible concern for the disadvantaged. In his most recent Sunday Star-Times column, however, the fat fascist seems to have thrown discretion to the wind, observes SOLO Principal Lindsay Perigo.

SOLO-International Press Release: World Strewth! Day

July 21, 2008

Reading about the performance of the world’s most famous drag artist in Sydney, Australia, on what is called World Youth Day, impels one to repair to that estimable Aussie-ism, “Strewth!” observes SOLO Principal Lindsay Perigo.

  Ernest Hemingway has long been my favourite writer. I love his short stories and his novels, especially "Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises" and "For Whom the Bell Tolls."  And, "The Old Man and the Sea" is truly the most beautiful book I have read.  

It is often said that Objectivism has the best product, we just haven't found a way to sell it.

Someone has called my attention to some old materials on The Atlas Society website. There is a page in the FAQ section about TAS and the Ayn Rand Institute.

These days, you can get a graduate diploma in political science at Victoria University of Wellington by analysing "John Banks and Lindsay Perigo, in their host roles on the Radio Pacific breakfast talk show 'The First Edition,'" in particular their "political-symbolic hate campaign" against Helen Clark which was "crystallised," says research student Lewis Stoddart, "into a characterisation which I describe as ‘communist lesbian dictator’."

Samizdat Issue 8 is out!

A July 4th edition this month, just for Billy Beck.

On March 15, 2006, I posted the following article on this blog. Not a single word needs to be changed today, more than two years later, because it describes the identical travesty of ignorant and dishonest United States Senators heaping blame on others for the consequences of their own reckless and destructive policies.

More PARC!

"The emotion involved in art is not an emotion in the ordinary meaning of the term. It is experienced more as a 'sense' or a 'feel,' but it has two characteristics pertaining to emotions: it is automatically immediate and it has an intense, profoundly personal (yet undefined) value-meaning to the individual experiencing it.

Here is how you embed youtube videos now on our site.

The following is an excerpt from The Passion of Ayn Rand's Critics. It is the bulk of Chapter 4, The Exploiters and the Exploited, with only a few modifications for publication here at Solo. Unfortunately, this includes the removal of the footnotes. For that, one must still repair to the text of PARC.

Surprise, surprise.

You can watch the entire thing now - for free - already on Google Video.
Watch it while you can, here is the link below.

SOLO—Sense of Life Objectivists.

• "The total passion for the total height."
• Rational passion and passionate reason.
• Say what you mean, and mean what you say.
• "This above all, to thine own self be true."