atlas shrugged
To Promote Freedom, Idaho Senator Wants To Require All Students To Read ‘Atlas Shrugged’
To make a point about government efficiency or something, an Idaho state senator has introduced a bill that he has no intention of actually passing. The proposal would require all Idaho high school students to read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged and pass a test on it in order to graduate. The Spokane Spokesman-Review reports that [...]
Don’t Go Galt This Christmas! Give The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Whether you’re of the Judeo-Christian persuasion or one of those exotic religions, you’re probably required to give gifts to people some time in the next month. We here at Wonkette understand that this is patently unfair. Why should you have to sacrifice any portion of your earnings to, for example, the lazy marxist teachers in [...]
Guardian Rolls Out Comedy Section With Paean to Ayn Rand
What the hell is going on over at the Guardian, you might be wondering, given that they recently let former Bush speechwriter Josh Treviño post an 18-paragraph column explaining why he wrote a 23-word tweet, over a year ago, that expressed nonchalance at the idea of the IDF killing novelist Alice Walker? (Hint: it has [...]
Download a Free Copy of Wonkette’s Ayn Rand Graphic Novel
Did you know It was almost exactly one year ago that Ayn Rand’s Adventures were first released upon this world? One year ago Ayn Rand set out on a 13-part time-traveling adventure filled with political intrigue, mescalin, and vomit. In honor of Ayn’s birthday, and for those who missed out on Ayn’s epic graphic novel [...]
‘Atlas Shrugged Part I’ Financier Afraid To Make Another One
Twelve days after opening “Atlas Shrugged: Part 1,” the producer of the Ayn Rand adaptation said Tuesday that he is reconsidering his plans to make Parts 2 and 3 because of scathing reviews and flagging box office returns for the film. “Critics, you won,” said John Aglialoro, the businessman who spent 18 years and more [...]
Nobody’s Going To the ‘Atlas Shrugged’ Movie
Atlas Shrugged: Part I has once again been eclipsed at the box office by the epic socialist propaganda romance Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, coming in at 18th and 17th, respectively. What’s worse: The movie hauled $879,000 over the weekend; more importantly, it only made an average of $1,890 per screen. The first [...]
Battlefield Train: A Review of the ‘Atlas Shrugged’ Movie
We obviously haven’t seen the movie and were never able to get through more than a few pages (even while high) of the doorstop novel, but this web review of Atlas Shrugged was still the most enjoyable thing we read tonight … mostly because it compares the movie to John Travolta’s fantastic adaptation of Ayn [...]
Terrible ‘Atlas Shrugged Part I’ Dismal At the Box Office
Despite all the libertarians in the nation selflessly relinquishing their Ron Paul gold for evil paper money so they could buy a movie ticket, Atlas Shrugged: Part I only made $1.7 million in its opening weekend, coming in at fourteenth place, right behind statist epic Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules. For a [...]
CPAC Wingnuts Thrill To High-Speed Rail Commercial
Oh for fuck’s sake. This just got cheers at CPAC. Who knew they were so big on high-speed rail? [YouTube via Weigel]
‘Going Galt’ Is New Code Word For ‘Laid Off’
Have you heard about the hot new craze sweeping the ranks of marginally employed basement-dwelling Pajamas Media devotees? It’s called “Going Galt,” and it refers to when the owner of a small haberdashery in East Tennessee has to lay off employees because nobody wants hats anymore, but the owner says they are voluntarily withdrawing their [...]
Old Jazzbo Hippie Claims Cheney Just Invaded Iraq For The Oil
John Bolton Plays Hard to Get
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