Coming Soon: a New Objectivist Book

[Roger Bissell]

Announcing the imminent publication of a great new self-help book for Objectivists who want to know how to minimize the productive output of their rational faculties: For the New Ineffectual. A compilation of penetrating essays by Dizzy Vertigo, Dyin' O'Shame, Joseph Moron, Michael Mozzarella, Jimmy Intrepid, and others, this is a must-have for those who are not satisfied with idly defaulting on the challenge of productive, rational effort, but instead want pointers on how to actively tear down the productive thinkers in our midst.

A partial listing of contents of For the New Ineffectual includes:

1. The Judgmentalist Ethics: a New Theory of Egocentricity

2. Email Confidentiality is for Suckers: Thumbing Your Nose at the Copyright Laws When It's for a Good Cause

3. How to Transform Your Anger at Being Privately Insulted into Public Character Defamation of Your Enemies

4. Jumping to Conclusions as an Act of Justice

5. Guidelines for the Courageous Manipulation and Intimidation of Scholars

6. Distorting Timelines and Motivations in the Service of a Higher Truth

7. Alcohol, Rage, and the Passionate Sense of Life: the Heroic Harnessing of Hostility

8. Two-Wrongs-Make-a-Right as a Corollary of the Law of Contradiction

This book has already been endorsed by Associated Scholars Seeking to Halt Objectivism's Looming Encroachment in Society (ASSHOLES). (Rumor has it that the principal authors are founding members of this organization.)

[Barbara Branden]

Roger, you've outdone yourself! But you forgot one especially daring essay which will put to rest, once and for all, the vicious accusation that the authors of the book are cultists:

The Virtue of Hatred: The Virtue Even Ayn Rand Neglected

And then, of course, there's the tried and true:

You Don't Love Me! -- Or: Your Failure to Meet the Minimum Standards of Objectivity

And how could you forget the essay particularly dear to the hearts of the authors:

How To Breach America's Laws Against Libel in a Manner That Only the Sane Will Notice

Tsk, tsk. You must try not to be so forgetful.

Barbara

[Michael Stuart Kelly]

Roger,

Let me check in real quick to gush.

I'm chomping at the bit to join in but I'm laughing too hard. Dayaamm, you're talented!

You're even bringing out a very funny comical vein in Barbara.

I shall return...

Michael

[CNA]

Roger,

>Associated Scholars Seeking to Halt Objectivism's Looming Encroachment in Society (ASSHOLES).

I just can't stop laughing, oh, that's just wonderful. Your whole post is just utterly hilarious. Way to go, Roger. I really enjoyed that one !!

Angie

[C. Jordan]

This one is still funnier than slied bread.

[jordanz]

ROTFLOL!

"Dyin O'Shame" still kills me every time I think of it.