How to drive like a Northwest Imbecille:

1) Get in your red 2006 jetta

2) Turn up iPod to full volume and connect with Belkin FM transmitter to German sound system...put Volume on "11".

3) Make sure all windows have been tinted to maximum darkness.

4) As you drive around local streets, be sure to stop and go as you like, pausing to look at shop windows and see if "some girl you saw" is in there.

5) Ignore all other drivers.

6) Meander in each and every lane, as needed (by you).

7) At stop signs, be sure and take several minutes as you finish whatever fantastic story your recounting on your cell phone.

8) Pull up slowly near corners and peer around and make sure that everyone is looking at you.

9) Then, push accelerator to max, and make turn at 90 mph in crowded street. Race up hill.

10) Get to next stop light and repeat.

I bet you've been needing to get that off your chest for a while, there, Imbecillic.

@2: It's spelled 'imbecilic.'

And I wonder why baby-men love "objectivism" so much...

Ahahahahahah "Does She Resemble Ayn Rand?" - Yes - "Rape."

But it's not really rape, it's just Objectivist Hero taking what's rightfully his. Or hers, in the case of the Ayn Rand female characters. Take it. Take it, it's yours.

@20: If you're in prison for securities fraud, odds are you've already read her complete works.

This flowchart comes from www.cracked.com

Credit should be given.

Here's the whole article: http://www.cracked.com/funny-304-ayn-ran…

My favorite quote:

'Ms. Rand agreed with Catherine MacKinnon's statement that "All sex is rape," but that's a good thing. Somehow.'

"If it was rape, it was rape by engraved invitation"

Never understood the Rand-hate very well. Very immature bandwagoning, most often. Comments above kinda prove the point. Yes, some of her characters seem closely related. Yes, most of the female characters serve as set dressing or trophies*. And Yes, she said some stupid shit about homosexuality, but the blanket hate of a series of books promoting individualism, heroism and a love for reason has never set well with me. No, her books are not required reading by sith lords at the Galactic Empire Academy.
Her writing, long speeches and all, is annoying but no more annoying than Mamet or Tolkien or Pynchon... her characters, superheroic as they may be, are much more believable than any of the fantastic roles Warren Ellis/Alan Moore/Stan Lee have crafted... her philosophy subtext no more distracting/pandering than C.S. Lewis' or Aristotles' subtexts... and her sex/personal life no more controversial than JM Barrie or Lewis Carroll.
Yet all these authors rarely suffer the sophomoric bullying Rand does. So, what's left?
Is it that she's a person demanding that humankind has untapped potential, re-stating in a slightly immigrant-flavored light, some of the American founders' ideals (freedom for freedom's sake)? Is it that she was Russian getting published throughout the cold war? Or is it sadly, even in the year 2010 as we live 'in the future', that Rand-hate comes from her being, simply, a woman - a smart and strong and flawed woman demanding what powerful and rich men have taken for granted...?

Look up "Randian Hero": ' Rand's self-declared purpose in writing fiction was to project an "ideal man"—a man whose ability and independence leads to conflict with others, but who perseveres nevertheless to achieve his values.'
Sure sounds like many superheroes and sports heroes and political heroes, doesn't it? Maybe Batman, Phelps, Hillary Clinton? (or translated back again to Rand's books: Roark, Equality 7, and Dagny...?)

*= notable though is that her women, even written in the 40's, understood the power and control that a smart submissive actually possesses in a sub/dom relationship. THAT rarely gets press though. Gotta wonder what the likes of Mistress Matisse would have to say.