Chris Grieb

I think those figures are current sales. I am glad to see that Amazon is carrying the Branden book.

Ba'al; Very funny!

Well thought out post.

Robert: Congratulations are in order.

Sadly Roger there are more but not many. Also sadly the ones who are for it can pass the thing and put it into law..

I must say that I found the Census forum deeply offensive. I am going to put American on the race question.

Robert, notice that each side was also delighted to discover an atrocity, and quickly used it for propaganda purposes: Makes the phrase "Kettle calling the pot black" the understatement of the century (20th).

David; The one problem is that the Soviet atrocities are little discussed in comparison with the Holocaust. The Poles were totally aware of atrocities since they were carried out on them.

Ed; Happy St. Patrick's Day to you also!

ND,

Interesting.

O'Reilly's being his usual overbearing self. Burns waits for him to stop bloviating and then speaks in measured tones.

Beyond the "internment" of the Japanese-Americans on the West Coast, there was war propaganda against the Japanese that I think you could fairly call racist. (Dr. Seuss was one of many who drew it, for a Left-wing publication no less.)

But for Tom Hanks to attribute the bloodiness of Tarawa or Iwo Jima to American racism toward the Japanese is breathtakingly detached from reality.

Robert Campbell

There was racism on the part of American but there was also racism by the Japanese. The Japanese were in many cases prepared to fight till the death.

This post is inpressive. I have been something of a cynic about the Free State Project. I was hoping they would pick a warmer and Western state.

The web site Dead or Alive has a list of the major actors on Mission Impossible> Only three of the actor have died. Graves, Greg Morris and the voice on the tape at the beginning of the show.

I like Robert & Michael but the phase I think all of you should apply to Perigo and company was by David Kelley is "Better things to do."

Anne Heller's book is now reviewed in The New Individualist, Fall/Winter 2010, pp. 72-79, with a one-page interview on p. 80.

The review and interview are by Will Thomas.

Actually, most of the issue is by Will Thomas.

After this review, I don't think Lindsay Perigo would want Will Thomas to invite him to speak at another TAS event, if somehow Mr. Thomas were still inclined to do so.

Robert Campbell

PS. On p. 78, Mr. Thomas refers to the Passion of Ayn Rand's Critics by title. He doesn't name the author, and uses one adjective ("polemical") to describe the book. Jim Valliant deserves to be referred to explicitly, and his book deserves to be slammed explicitly. But it's a start.

Robert; There is a quote "Let's not ask for the moon when we have the stars." It's a start.

I too am sorry to hear about Peter Grave's death. I was a regular watcher of Mission Impossible. I don't like the Tom Cruise movie either.

Harry Reid must GO!

Can I suggest that Lindsay be placed in a nice quiet room with no sharp pointed objects. Patrick Kennedy can be put in the next room.

Jim,

Yup, I didn't look for it in the right place.

Here 'tis:

http://www.freeminds2010.org/

Quite a lineup.

And early registration (by March 26) is $350.

Robert

Robert & Jim, Thanks for drawing my attention to this. I have to get my money in. See you all there.

Chris G,

I haven't heard of any change in Chris's condition.

He sent a thank you message around to the folks who contributed after Marsha Enright made the appeal on Facebook. I haven't heard from him since then.

During the now concluded hullabaloo over the Mayhew collection of essays at amazon I know that a couple of the participants emailed him, but I don't think he replied to any of the emails.

Robert C

Robert C, I'm sorry that there is not better news but there is also no bad news.

It maybe a long wait.

Robert C. Has there been any change in Chris's condition?

Critique of Pure Reason - I. Kant Which is to say I Kant finish it.

Ba'al Chatzaf

Ba'al; Excellent word play.

Michelle has a point but electing a GOP Congress would mean we would see Nanc a lot less on the evening news.

I rarely look at Perigo's site but I hope he can get some help.

I wonder if there's ever explicit instruction given: to get to the next level you're going to have to make a spectacle. Or if Cohen, Hsieh, etc. just know it without being told. I'm not sure where I heard this, but wasn't Valliant involved in sponsoring Nathaniel Branden's Benefits and Hazards lecture in the early 80's? After something like that, if you think you're going to make it to Operating Thetan, you know it's going to take more than auditing and aceing the e-meter. Thus was PARC conceived?

ND,

Nobody's written a handbook, that's for sure.

But certain melodramatic gestures are widely reproduced in action, as are certain talking points.

Figuring out how the novices and postulants learn these things would be a fascinating sociological project.

I don't know whether Jim Valliant had as much to do with the Benefits and Hazards talk as he now pretends. The guy has a flair for exaggeration. But, yes, any such involvement later became a sin that needs expiation.

Robert Campbell

Robert; I too have the feeling that simply saying you now think the Brandens are the "spawn of the devil" but it must be accompanied the equivalent of burning the Branden books in the public square.