 The Benefits of Wine
by Ciro D'Agostino
For SOLOists, here are some quotes I found about the benefits of wine.
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Self Defense, Part 1
by Duncan Bayne
Are you prepared to protect your life, and the people and things in your life which you value? Your wife? Your children? Your dog? Your house? Your collection of gently aging Shiraz? The reason I ask is that I thought I was prepared, some months ago—then reality asserted itself and proved otherwise. (Read more...)
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The New Arabian Dream
by Max Schwing
Dubai is different, Dubai is modern, Dubai is a good future. As one of the six United Arabian Emirates, Dubai shows us how Islamic beliefs can be integrated into a modern society. It also gives any liberal ideologist around the world goosebumps, because in Dubai we see our dreams coming true. (Read more...)
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Sergio Manuel Sanchez Covarrubias Kilbourne
by James Kilbourne
Today, you are triumphant, and our love conquers all fear and doubt. Tomorrow we will deal with tomorrow, and we will deal with each tomorrow thereafter together. Today, July 8, is my birthday; your courage and strength have given me the greatest birthday present I could ever receive. And I no longer fear tomorrow. Our love makes any tomorrow bearable and every today a joy. (Read more...)
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For Mario Lanza
by David C. Adams
No critic's sneering hate for life and skill
Can penetrate the rapture you conveyed
In raging passion shaped by human will,
A sacrament in breathless serenade.
You sang each word as if with final breath;
Your song remains, a voice transcending death. (Read more...)
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Coming Out of the Country Closet
by Jason Dixon
As someone enamored with the romantic idea of culture, sophistication, and elegance I thought my equally strong love of country music was a reflection of a divided self. Thanks to another friend I realized that it isn’t me who’s contradictory, it’s the fans and artists of country music. And as a person passionately attached to his values, I’m happy to admit aloud what once was a secret pleasure. (Read more...)
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Some Great Men
by Jeffrey Perren
Some of the lesser known, but still worth knowing about, great men of history. (Read more...)
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Seven Deadly Sins
by Lindsay Perigo
Seven Deadly Sins ought to be enough to be going on with. As will be readily apparent, they are overlapping and mutually reinforcing ... I hope that in getting my exasperation with them off my chest, I have written something of value to the reader in his quest for Nem-status and eudaimonia. It can be summed up as follows:
This above all, thine own self create, and to it forever be true …
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The Pitfall Of Passivism
by Lindsay Perigo
To be a passivist is to be vulnerable to dogmatists pretending to know it all, when in fact they are no more qualified to live your life than you are to live theirs. It is to risk abandoning the virtue of independence in favour of conformity to someone else’s dictates. (Read more...)
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Wednesday
November 24, 2004 |
Thanks, Indeed
by Jennifer Iannolo
Yes, my fellow Americans, it is time once again to return to the family table. I hope you have your bottle of wine ready. ;) (Read more...)
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Wednesday
November 10, 2004 |
On Smoking
by Barbara Branden
[Editor's note - this article is reproduced with her permission from Barbara's web site, in light of the "addiction" thread currently on this board.]
In the endless conversations, essays, articles, television shows, letters to the editor, and debates about the tobacco industry versus the government, one issue is considered unarguable: that cigarettes are addictive. (Read more...)
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Jennifer the Superhero
by William E. Perry
Jennifer Iannolo saves the day and rescues this food illiterate from disaster. (Read more...)
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Search and Seizure
by Jennifer Iannolo
You didn't actually think I was going to wax politically, did you? (Read more...)
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Sacred Sex, Animalistic Sex, and Other Seductive Theories
by Joseph Rowlands
The opposite of a bad idea is not always a good idea, and there's no substitute for thinking. (Read more...)
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Tuesday
September 28, 2004 |
Jeeping to Ouray
by Adam Reed
Jeeping is when this animal's mind challenges reality by driving a superbly agile machine, one of the mind's noblest products, into fun. (Read more...)
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'Making the Genius Quicker': A Complete Hiftory of Man According to Hif Divers Delightf (Part Two)
by Peter Cresswell
With the brief exceptions of Classical Greece and Julius Caesar, human beings celebrated the arrival of beer for the next several thousands of years by being permanently plastered. Talk about overdoing a good thing.
Eventually, from out of the east appeared The Great Redeemer ... (Read more...)
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'You Smell of Goat': A Complete Hiftory of Man According to Hif Divers Delightf
by Peter Cresswell
When wildebeest and wild beasts roamed the plains thousands of years ago, early man roamed with them ... and often provided them with a good meal. A successful hunt was all such poor creatures had to celebrate: the high point in mens' bleak existence was (very occasionally) roasting a wild beast over an open fire. Then, for just a few brief moments in their short and brutal lives, when their bellies were full and their bodies warm, their thoughts could (at last!) roam to higher things. With the kill they had bought themselves time to think.
And what was it they thought about? What great realisations did they come to? After much skull-sweat they concluded that , in the immortal words of Tom Waits, 'twere better to be a good liver than to have one. (Read more...)
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An Unlikely Friendship
by Kathryn Sentman
My friend Billy was a Communist, a Christian, and a skeptic, and nothing I could say would ever change his mind. How could I, a passionate Objectivist, truly be friends with someone who contradicted all of my values? (Read more...)
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An Objectivist World
by Joseph Rowlands
What kind of world are you fighting for? (Read more...)
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The Hacker's Diet
by Duncan Bayne
I strongly recommend The Hacker's Diet to anyone seeking to lose or gain body fat - it is rational, easy and free. I am a hacker (as defined by Eric Raymond), I am on the Hacker's Diet, and probably will be for the rest of my life. In the few months I have been on the diet, I have reduced my weight (20-day movi... (Read more...)
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Contributions of Post-Randian Philosophers of Human Flourishing
by Edward W. Younkins
A post-Randian or neo-Aristotelian self-perfectionist approach to ethics can be shown to support the natural right to liberty which itself provides a solid foundation for a minimal state. This approach gives liberty moral significance by illustrating how the natural right to liberty is a social and political condition ... (Read more...)
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Presentation
by Elizabeth Kanabe
We all have images of people who don't quite seem to fit their 'status': the young genius, the crazy inventor, the hippie with a million dollar software company. We like to think that people are judged solely for their personality, ideas and contributions, and products are judged for quality. More often, though, we see businessmen in a suit. We know that appearance and delivery does account for a lot when dealing with others. (Read more...)
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The Ten Commitments
by Barry Kayton
What does Ayn Rand's philosophy mean to you in practice? (Read more...)
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Schools and Values ... with Acknowledgements to Ayn Rand
by Lindsay Perigo
The Hon. Lindsay Perigo, host of the Politically Incorrect Show, has been appointed Minister of Education at gunpoint, & made to produce a list of values for state schools to promote, since it has become clear that no one else has a clue. Here is what he has come up with: (Read more...)
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Getting Back On Your Feet
by Paul M. Kay
Objectivism, it is often asserted, is a philosophy for living on Earth. It is a philosophy for living one's life with joy and exuberance. (Read more...)
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