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Miley Cyrus 27 Aug 2013 | 10:35 am
I’ll keep this short because I don’t think singer and actress Miley Cyrus is worth the fuss but her crude performance during an awards show – and really these are meaningless awards – has caused a sti...
Bezos Buys the Washington Post 7 Aug 2013 | 03:16 pm
The news that Jeff Bezos, who created Amazon.com, bought the Washington Post from its owner for $250 million is not surprising; the businessman has always been interested in and favored by media, with...
Movie Review: Lovelace 7 Aug 2013 | 08:18 am
The new movie about a porn star who later said she became a “complete person” and left the pornographic film industry is interesting because sex and its expression, repression and suppression is inter...
Mid-Summer Snowjob 5 Aug 2013 | 05:09 am
Whatever the truth about the government’s latest claims that we may be under imminent threat of an attack by Islamic terrorists, the state-sponsored alarm rings false. If, in fact, there is a serious,...
An American in Russia 2 Aug 2013 | 03:57 am
National security is government’s most important function and our government has failed time and again, fostering, allowing or not stopping Islamic terrorist attacks from Benghazi to Boston. Inversely...
Movie Review: Love Letters (1945) 30 Jul 2013 | 01:18 pm
This 1945 motion picture, based on a novel and written and adapted for the screen by Ayn Rand, delivers lush romanticism in a movie with an implausible premise which nevertheless features excellent ph...
A Note on Payment for Posts 28 Jul 2013 | 04:25 am
I know this is a sensitive topic, but I do hear from readers who comment on the value they get from posts on my blog, which I see as both an informal outlet and advertising for my work, and, sometimes...
OCON in Chicago 26 Jul 2013 | 12:07 am
Filling up on arts and philosophy at this year’s Objectivist Conference (OCON), I enrolled in courses and general lectures by favorite teachers and intellectuals and I attended a screening of Love Let...
Travel: The Drake Hotel 24 Jul 2013 | 12:02 pm
The Drake Hotel is located on Chicago’s Gold Coast at the start of what’s known as Magnificent Mile. For years, I noticed it primarily and prominently as the landmark that proudly stood just off Lake ...
Travel: John Hancock Tower 24 Jul 2013 | 12:08 am
John Hancock Tower on Michigan Avenue’s Magnificent Mile in Chicago is a grand achievement. It moves with the wind. I’ve been up on top at the bar, observatory or restaurant many times and this summer...
