4/30/2010
Books of 2010: Short Story Edition-- Old Man and the Sea
I read "Old Man and the Sea," by Ernest Hemingway, this morning. It was nice to read something short, after Atlas Shrugged. I don't know what I am doing reading things that could actually be considered "Literature." Maybe next I need read some more cheesy Sci-Fi...
ummmmm... I give it 9/10.
ummmmm... I give it 9/10.
CRY HIPPIE! CRYYYYYYY!
Says my brother: "I'm sure that the trees would be quite moved were they sentient, able to hear, and able to understand human language..."
And the rocks are ALLLLLIIIIIVVE!!!!
If environmentalists want to be taken seriously, they aren't doing a very good job.
From Big Hollywood
Books of 2010: Atlas Shrugged
I finished "Atlas Shrugged," by Ayn Rand on Wednesday, 10 days after I started it. If you haven't read it, you should--not so much for Rand's philosophy (which, like all philosophies, has good and bad points about it), but for her vision of how the end of America comes. The story was very good, and very frightening.
I was talking to my roomate about it, and he said "So it's scary because you could see it happening?"
I replied, "NO. It's scary because you can see it happening. It is happening."
The apathy of society. The moral relativism. The rising welfare state. The blind handouts to other nations. Taking from the producers to support the consumers, while asking nothing in return. All of these things are happening today, and Atlas Shrugged shows what happens when these ideas are carried out to their (il)logical conclusion.
10/10, and you should read it, or read it again.
I was talking to my roomate about it, and he said "So it's scary because you could see it happening?"
I replied, "NO. It's scary because you can see it happening. It is happening."
The apathy of society. The moral relativism. The rising welfare state. The blind handouts to other nations. Taking from the producers to support the consumers, while asking nothing in return. All of these things are happening today, and Atlas Shrugged shows what happens when these ideas are carried out to their (il)logical conclusion.
10/10, and you should read it, or read it again.
A Shaun of the Dead Haiku
This was so great that I had to pass it along:
From SayUncle:
From SayUncle:
Oh my god. Zombies!!!!I love that movie. And Hot Fuzz. And I can't wait for the next one those guys make.
We need to get some weapons.
Crap. We’re in England.
A Lutran Joke
A strongman was giving a show down at the big circus. He made a pinhole in a lemon, squeezed a cup of juice out of it, and yelled to the crowd, "I'll give $1000 to the man who can squeeze out another drop!" All of the burly men in the audience came up, and none of them could get anything else out of that lemon. Then, a shrived old man hobbled up, took a hold of the lemon, and squeezed another cup and half out of it. The strongman and the crowd were amazed! "How did you do that," they asked, and "What in the world do you do to be able to do that?" He replied, "Oh, ya, sure, I'm da treasurer down at da Lutran Church."
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