Comments on: Open thread 12/28/22 https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/28/open-thread-12-28-22/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 29 Dec 2022 01:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/28/open-thread-12-28-22/#comment-2659377 Thu, 29 Dec 2022 01:59:48 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=122152#comment-2659377 Today National Review is clapping itself on the back and celebrating the 65th anniversary of Whittaker Chamber’s scorching review of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged” in NR’s pages.

I’m well aware “Atlas Shrugged” is a badly flawed novel. It’s an interminably long, didactic melodrama between Good and Evil (according to Rand’s philosophy) with paper-thin characters.

And yet…

It has sold millions of copies and changed lives with a message of self-reliance and opposition to collectivism. The Evil in “Atlas” seemed cartoonish in the 20th century, but has largely come to pass since Obama’s election in 2008. Adam Schiff and Joe Biden are creatures practically straight out of “Atlas Shrugged.”

Rand changed my life a bit and I retain affection for her, though I wouldn’t want to have been an Objectivist or a member of her inner circle

Chambers loses me completely with this famous, horrific line from his review:
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From almost any page of Atlas Shrugged, a voice can be heard, from painful necessity, commanding: “To a gas chamber–go!”

https://www.nationalreview.com/2005/01/big-sister-watching-you-whittaker-chambers/
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Nope.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/28/open-thread-12-28-22/#comment-2659357 Wed, 28 Dec 2022 23:51:31 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=122152#comment-2659357 https://ace.mu.nu/archives/402526.php

I’m fascinated to know who is financing The Dispatch.

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/28/open-thread-12-28-22/#comment-2659354 Wed, 28 Dec 2022 23:33:37 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=122152#comment-2659354 F:

🙂

]]> By: F https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/28/open-thread-12-28-22/#comment-2659351 Wed, 28 Dec 2022 23:14:09 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=122152#comment-2659351 I just saw TV coverage of all the Southwest Airlines luggage that is piling up at airports.

First thought: Dear Lord, don’t let undersecretary for nuclear waste Sam Brinton see that video! Temptation would be much too high!

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/28/open-thread-12-28-22/#comment-2659333 Wed, 28 Dec 2022 20:58:54 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=122152#comment-2659333 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5h_DmLIjnw

]]> By: Bob Wilson https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/28/open-thread-12-28-22/#comment-2659328 Wed, 28 Dec 2022 19:54:38 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=122152#comment-2659328 We can hope the Trump bows out gracefully when he loses a few primaries but probably not. Too bad for conservatives. Ron DeSantis is doing an outstanding job.

Gov. DeSantis promises constitutional carry will finally come to Florida
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/576783-ron-desantis-constitutional-carry/

DeSantis offers to help Libs of TikTok creator when she was doxxed

“But during that period when she (Libs of TikTok) was doxxed and forced from her home, someone from Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office reached out, relaying a message from the Florida Republican who offered her refuge at the mansion; Libs of TikTok revealed this on Fox Nation’s Tucker Carlson Today.”

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2022/12/28/what-gov-desantis-did-when-libs-of-tik-tok-creator-was-doxxed-by-the-liberal-media-n2617617

]]> By: PA+Cat https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/28/open-thread-12-28-22/#comment-2659327 Wed, 28 Dec 2022 19:45:14 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=122152#comment-2659327 RTF–

For a little more hilarity– you might enjoy this version of a sailor’s jig from a Canadian performance of HMS Pinafore:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvy8Ucsylsw&ab_channel=JohnBaileyOwen

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/28/open-thread-12-28-22/#comment-2659326 Wed, 28 Dec 2022 19:40:58 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=122152#comment-2659326 Neo pays insufficient attention to Nanci Griffith.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBBi1dk-_HQ

]]> By: Barry Meislin https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/28/open-thread-12-28-22/#comment-2659325 Wed, 28 Dec 2022 19:38:29 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=122152#comment-2659325 Interrupting this entertaining dance routine to bring you Part oh-I-dunno of that raw, seething and emotionally complex drama, “Just some damn fool thing in the Balkans”….
“Serbia Puts Troops On ‘Full Combat Readiness’ As Main Kosovo Border Crossing Shut”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/serbia-puts-troops-full-combat-readiness-main-kosovo-border-crossing-shut
(To really understand what’s going on there, one could do worse than watch “Black Cat, White Cat”…with the volume turned up.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cat,_White_Cat

]]> By: Rufus T. Firefly https://thenewneo.com/2022/12/28/open-thread-12-28-22/#comment-2659322 Wed, 28 Dec 2022 19:09:32 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=122152#comment-2659322 om @ 10:28,

I loved that Coen Brothers, “No Dames” number. Hilarious and brilliantly done! The movie it’s in, “Hail Caesar,” is very clever and entertaining.

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