Bryan Strawser

Musings from the land of winter & road construction

Awesomesauce disguised as Ayn Rand

I can’t begin to describe the awesomeness contained within these two blog posts. First up, Eric Hague writes an ingenious post entitled Our Daughter Isn’t a Selfish Brat; Your Son Just Hasn’t Read Atlas Shrugged.: I’d like to start by saying that I don’t get into belligerent shouting matches at the playground very often. The [...]

Crap that gives conservatives a bad name

Crap like this: 5) Benedict Arnold (17) 5) Woodrow Wilson (17) 4) The Rosenbergs (19) 3) Franklin Delano Roosevelt (21) 2) Barack Obama (23) 1) Jimmy Carter (25) There’s a case to be made that both Benedict Arnold and the Rosenbergs belong on the list of the 25 worst figures in American history. But Jimmy [...]

Walden

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living [...]