Ayn Rand

  • The Pop-Psych Rand

    Part of my routine when I arrive at work every morning involves downloading some data from the web site of a company we work with. They always have a quotation on the login page, and they change it every day. Sometimes it's humorous, more often it's vaguely inspirational in a pop-psychology self-help you-can-do-it sort of

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  • Weekend Music I listened to Tom Waits Nighthawks at the Diner for the first time a couple of days ago. He performs this story–it's not exactly a song, though it has a musical accompaniment, and I noticed that he didn't write it, which led me to discover that it was once something of a hit for

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