14 February 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
Ever get the feeling that society is holding you back? Like a ball and chain are just wrapped around your ankles, and if you could only break free and be your own person, the world would miraculously become your sandbox? Well according to Ayn Rand, that ball and chain are nothing more than your own […]
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Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, capitalism, communism, Descartes, education, epistemology, ethics, Google, happiness, Jediah, Kiki, literature, metaphysics, Monopoly, oil, politics, pragmatism, rational egoism, rationality, reason, Sarah Palin, snow, Stephen, sustainability, The Fountainhead, utilitarianism
04 February 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
President Obama’s State of the Union address? Meh. Practicing all your life one of two classical instruments because your mother says so? Snore. Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes? F***ING AWESOME. Okay, so we couldn’t exactly hit the mediocrity hat trick. BUT on a week when Internets were down in Egypt and Chicago, sickness spread […]
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American exceptionalism, Amy Chua, AT&T, atheism, Barack Obama, Bill Corbett, CERN, China, Community, diversity, Egypt, electric cars, FermiLab, George W Bush, Golden Globes, JFK, Keith Olbermann, Kenny G, Kevin, Kevin Murphy, Kiki, Mark Zuckerberg, NASA, Neil DeGrass Tyson, parenting, piano, politics, religion, Ricky Gervais, Robert Heinlein, State of the Union, Stephen, Texas Tech University, They Might Be Giants, Twitter, Uverse, violin, Wall Street Journal, Weird Al Yankovic