Well, he certainly isn't John Galt (though he seems to think that he is.)

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

If Markfifteen shrugged, no one would notice. That is why he has to spam all the time.

So far he has just been the Bizarro World Mark14 . . . . managing to expose the problem with homeschooling and the danger of inbreeding and bestiality within the fallout area of a nook-clear plant . . .

Well, to be honest, I'm actually more partial to Rush (the group, not the fat guy) who based their album 2112 off of it.

Plus it's a much faster read, unlike Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead...

I think that she draws too rigid a line between collective achievement and individual achievement and tends to promote an unrealistic picture of "great men" (and women) without whom society would collapse.

I don't buy that. Collective achievements involve people working as individuals and people working as groups. I am all for individual achievement. But in a society where individual achievement is the ideal, you tend to produce a society of resume-padders. To my mind, GWB, Sarah Palin, and John McCain are all resume-padders. So are a lot of the financial kingpins on Wall Street. (And I am sure that Democrats pad resumes too. But they don't promote a society that promotes resume padding.)

BTW, when it comes to dystopian novels, I kind of like "The Handmaiden's Tale" by Margaret Atwood. Sarah Palin would fit into that novel IMHO.

The "My Problem with Ayn Rand .... " was meant as a response to you.

She borrowed my stinkin' Weedeater, like, a year ago and won't return it. Bitch...

BBQ grill!

Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work in Progress.

Peyton Place Palin resembles the plot (or lack of) in James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.

Joyce's methods of stream of consciousness, resemble the fragmentation of thought presented by our girl Palin.

Where literary allusions and free dream associations are pushed to the limit in the book, Palin exhibits them in the false dreams of Saint Ronnie Reagan's lost Conservative America.

This bedeviled conservative speaks unknowingly of herself in a unique language based mainly on complex multi-level puns of herself and her conservative brethren without realizing that she is the brunt of the juxtaposition that falsely believes they are but a copy of Reagan's ideal exemplars.

.... (I thought everyone knew that)

SSDD

he's harmless, knows nothing, sprouts sophisms, and is generally

un informed,

I miss commander101

He was a conservative, and a gentleman.

Regards

Pace