In a message dated 12/12/2002 3:15:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, "James Somebody" <amitskaw at hotmail.com> writes: > in the vicious, one step away from dogmatic total war world > that is the net, I don't believe there is a faster way to > get people reaching for the nuclear button then to > introduce the prose and political stylings of Ms. Rand into > a discussion. Actually, these days it seems IP debates start more flame wars than Ayn Rand, with gun control running a close second. I personally found _Atlas Shrugged_ quite enjoyable, though I should point out that I spent the time laughing AT the characters and the author. Also, the only reason I was reading it was that at the time I was frequenting rasfw.robert-jordan, and wanted to understand what alt.shrugged was parodying. --KG