The Power Of Prayer

Dear Lord, I know I don’t talk to you very often, and when I do, it’s usually about something whiney and selfish, and well, I guess this little prayer is no exception. But I feel compelled to speak up. This year, you took my favorite screenwriter, Nora Ephron; my favorite visionary, Steve Jobs; my favorite country musician, Earl Scruggs; my …

Atlas Mugged: Making The World Safe For Sociopaths

What do Ayn Rand, Paul Ryan, the Teabaggers, and Lucifer have in common? (If you want to feel the backward, you must click it.) In Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel and current movie, Atlas Shrugged, the ideological template for those wishing to usher in a new Gilded Age run by billionaire plutocrats like the Koch Brothers, Atlas is meant to symbolize …