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What should the government do about ailing financial institutions?

Nothing, except to back off and get out—as any Objectivist knows, intervention is treating the disease with the disease

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Intervene judiciously—enough to avert a catastrophe that is otherwise imminent

Intervene massively—as it's doing

Nationalize the whole economy and be done with it. Bring on the USSA!

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Submitted by Jeremy LeRay on Fri, 2007-02-16 08:55.

This drawing appeared many years ago in an undergraduate humor magazine, when I was in college. Somehow I've always liked it, but somehow it also disturbs me. It's a guilty pleasure of mine, this caricature.

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I wish I knew how to post

Submitted by Jeremy LeRay on Fri, 2007-02-16 21:14.

I wish I knew how to post this image in the message itself, rather than having to settle for a link to it.

And, you know, I just had a

Submitted by Jeremy LeRay on Fri, 2007-02-16 20:33.

And, you know, I just had a thought...

A thousand years from now, it's likely that the actual images of Ayn Rand will be replaced by a strikingly attractive and physically lithe woman with a flapper hairdo, wearing some kind of modernized dress suit and with rays of light coming off her.

I think this is what happened with Jesus. He was probably a hairy and homely Hebrew in real life, who attracted the interest of some really good publicity guys. They gentiled him up with a little gentile nose and light, gentile skin and beautiful, long, straight, flowing hair and a full, but soft, beard.

And, oh yeah, they gave him the rays of light. That seems mandatory.

Yessiree Bob. That's what I think will happen to Ayn Rand. She will undergo the miracle of transformation.