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 …

Weeper of the House

Boner proves that self-pity can trump empathy Comparing the double standard for crying applied to men like John Boehner and women like Nancy Pelosi, the incoming and outgoing Speakers of the House respectively,  Barbara WaWa comments: “…this guy has an emotional problem. That every time he talks about anything that’s not raise taxes [sic], he cries.” The Boner cries about …