The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by James Killus:

Isn’t there some theoretical limit on the number of times highly-placed conservative Republicans can be caught out this way?

Certainly. The theoretical limit is equal to the number of Republican Congresspeople still in office.

This assumes that departing Republicans caught in gay sex scandals are not replaced by other Republicans who are then caught in gay sex scandals. This is a very dubious assumption. I do not see even the number of Republicans as a theoretical limit, as there is no reason to assume that any of these guys are gone permanently and the Republican base would vote for a serial molester of underage barnyard animals before it would vote for "liberals."

I also see that no one here is really considering the erotic appeal of the forbidden. Closeted Republicans want their kinks to be illegal or at the least, very, very frowned upon, because otherwise, it would not appeal to them.

Ah, you are all missing the real point. The question is not "Who is John Galt?" but rather "What is John Galt?" Once you answer that question, grasshopper, you will understand why all those Objectivists are waiting around for someone to found Rearden Steel. It is the same reason why all the titans in the book waited to go on strike until John Galt told them to.

I will also note that I find the prose of Atlas Shrugged no more off-putting than Tarzan, Skylark of Space, or Conan, the Barbarian. It's really just a matter of making sure you read them before you are 15.

The Bell Curve could not appear scholarly without Mankind Quarterly, financed by The Pioneer Fund, an organization with an uh, interesting past.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned The Hoover Institution (home of Dinesh D'Souza), the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, or the economics departments of Pepperdine and George Mason Universities. These are the heavyweights in the disinformation division.

Oh, and anything from S. Fred Singer on global warming. Or anything else for that matter.

"Now comes the big question: Who will print Elvis’ obituary when he dies for real?"

You obviously missed the 1992 edition of the WWN with the headline "Elvis Dead at 57!"

Of course that's not to say that he can't die again after his resurrection.

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