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A while ago, I promised "[t]here will be more, including a political-themed post and one that disses Objectivism." It's time to make good on that promise, with the one about Objectivism first. With no further ado, here are the posts at Crazy Eddie's News about Objectivism and Objectivists since the last one a month ago.
Ayn Rand on love and sex
A Day in Exquisite Insults of Objectivists
Blast from the past: Pathology on the Right, a commentary on Krugman's "Two speeches and an editorial"
More Krugman on Paul Ryan
Now some posts that relate to those above, one on political psychopathology and another on an economic school of thought that some Libertarians subscribe to.Occupy Psychopaths video
The Austrian School: Faith-based economics and pseudoscience
The political posts I promised will be coming later.
Los Angeles Times: Revenge of the geeks
May 28, 2011
By Alexandra Robbins
In seven years of reporting from American middle and high schools, I've seen repeatedly that the differences that cause a student to be excluded in high school are often the same traits or skills that will serve him or her well after graduation
Examples abound: Taylor Swift's classmates left the lunch table as soon as she sat down because they disdained her taste for country music. Last year, the Grammy winner was the nation's top-selling recording artist.
Students mocked Tim Gunn's love of making things; now he is a fashion icon with the recognizable catchphrase "Make it work."
J.K. Rowling, author of the bestselling "Harry Potter" series, has described herself as a bullied child "who lived mostly in books and daydreams." It's no wonder she went on to write books populated with kids she describes as "outcasts and comfortable with being so."
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Alexandra Robbins is the author of "The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School."
Much more at the link.
Above originally posted to random_lounge on JournalFen.
May 28, 2011
By Alexandra Robbins
In seven years of reporting from American middle and high schools, I've seen repeatedly that the differences that cause a student to be excluded in high school are often the same traits or skills that will serve him or her well after graduation
Examples abound: Taylor Swift's classmates left the lunch table as soon as she sat down because they disdained her taste for country music. Last year, the Grammy winner was the nation's top-selling recording artist.
Students mocked Tim Gunn's love of making things; now he is a fashion icon with the recognizable catchphrase "Make it work."
J.K. Rowling, author of the bestselling "Harry Potter" series, has described herself as a bullied child "who lived mostly in books and daydreams." It's no wonder she went on to write books populated with kids she describes as "outcasts and comfortable with being so."
...
Alexandra Robbins is the author of "The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School."
Much more at the link.
Above originally posted to random_lounge on JournalFen.
