A little James Brown in honor of Al “Mr. Stone” Gore.  C’mon baby, release my second chakra!  (Levez-vous!)

May the 4th be with you.

And you thought snake-handlers were crazy. (Warning, turn your speakers down at about 1:40 into this video.) Hat tip to  http://biggovernment.com/

One of our commenters disputes there’s a “cult of personality” around our current president.

In the interest of fairness, we ask our readers to forward any similar renderings of Reagan or Bush, naked and triumphant. Unicorn optional.

—The Management

[As for naked paintings of Bill Clinton, let's just not go there.]

Oh, it’s on Page One of the Obama playbook. The NYT Magazine ran “The Mellowing of Bill Clinton” a few months ago:

And the man once called the “first black president” remains deeply wounded by allegations that he made racially insensitive remarks during the campaign, like dismissing Obama’s South Carolina win by comparing it with Jesse Jackson’s victories there in the 1980s.

“None of them ever really took seriously the race rap,” he told me. “They knew it was politics. I had one minister in Texas in the general election come up and put his arm around me.” This was an Obama supporter. “And he came up, threw his arm around me and said, ‘You’ve got to forgive us for that race deal.’ He said, ‘That was out of line.’ But he said, ‘You know, we wanted to win real bad.’ And I said, ‘I got no problem with that.’ I said it’s fine; it’s O.K. And we laughed about it and we went on.”

Well, Bill laughed, I guess, but it was Hillary who took it in the pantsuit.

I was a little surprised the elites and mainstream media didn’t pick up on this, but the answer’s obvious now—they intended to use the same slimy tactic again, this time at the real enemy, the right. If they pulled it on Bill Clinton, what chance do the rest of us have?

No doubt some people are serious in calling Obama’s opponents racist, like that unfortunate puddinhead Jimmy Carter, but for the rest, it’s all just part of the game.

Well, anything is brief compared to that insipid read.

In short, my feelings about the book are akin to those of Officer Barbrady. Though I will not discontinue reading for all eternity, the book did nearly sap me of my life precious.

I did have a few positive reactions to the book.  It wasn’t nearly as dry or dull a read as I had expected.  In fact, Ayn Rand’s prose style is eminently readable and somewhat engrossing.

Did I say a few?  Okay, I really only had one nice comment because this book is both an artistic and philosophical nightmare. (more…)