Be Proud
To complement my previous post, here is a nice thought from Your Daily Dose of Happiness:----------------------------------------------------------------------TODAY'S...
View ArticleTurn Signal Insight
One day, I will learn how to create my own customized bumper stickers (the magnetic kind that you can remove anytime, of course). I have a message that I would love to have displayed on my car for all...
View ArticleKindredist Meaning
Hmmm…I bet you were wondering today what the etymology of “kindredist” is.First, I wanted a name that no other Web site has used. So I’m happy to have made it up and found that it is a completely new...
View ArticleTeens Having Sex – Go Figure
Really, I don't fish around for any URLs that have the word “sex” in them. Honest and for true. However, I was intrigued when I watched a news show a few months ago that interviewed the creators of the...
View ArticleProtest Earth “Cower” – Celebrate Edison Hour
Today at 8pm ET, I will be turning on all the lights in my house to celebrate, what I call, Edison Hour. If Thomas Edison were alive today, I’m sure he would be protesting today’s evil nonsense – what...
View ArticleGottschalk: The Chopin of the Creoles
I recently discovered some sparklingly beautiful piano music, which I first thought was Chopin. I was surprised and delighted to find out the composer was American, born in 1829 in New Orleans. Here is...
View ArticleObjectivist Meeting at My House
Happy Spring-Time... Robert and I will be hosting an Objectivist meeting this Saturday, April 26, starting at 530pm, and having dinner around 630pm. We hold Objectivist study meetings every fourth...
View ArticleThe Remus Lupins and the Young Amy
Have you ever had an experience where some of your highest values and most important memories came to the forefront of the present moment and reoccurred, making it feel like years of your life...
View ArticleAnother Objectivist Adventure on May 24
Our next Robert and Amy Objectivist adventure will take place this coming Saturday, May 24, starting at 530pm with dinner around 630pm. We will be listening to and discussing the audio recording of...
View ArticleAyn Rand and Scrabble
Happy Memorial Day weekend! During Saturday's meeting, you could say we had a memorial to Ayn Rand as we listened to Harry Binswanger and Allan Gotthelf's talk on Ayn Rand's character and personality....
View ArticleObjectivist Meeting on July 26
Hope everyone is having a particularly wonderful summer! I'm taking time to enjoy as much as I can, and that includes hosting our next meeting this Saturday, 7/26 at 530pm. We'll be serving dinner,...
View ArticleInDesign Work and More Posts
It's been a while, but I will be posting more now that the luscious summertime is coming to an end. I took an InDesign class in the spring, and here are some of the fruits of my work:Wine advertisement...
View ArticleAmy Does the Astro
Here is my evaluative essay assigned in my Astronomy class for your reading pleasure. I had to rank space exploration-related events in order of cultural, technological, political, historical and...
View ArticleAdvice for Running an Objectivist Study Group
I recently received a very nice question from someone who was looking for advice on starting an Objectivist club. My response is below, but if you have any other advice, please feel free to...
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Ayn Rand Wasn't Joking
No, I thought, not really. Couldn't be... But it was true. I recently studied the history of the Chrysler Building, which is a beautiful and tremendously heroic story, and I came across a photo of the...
View ArticleTrebor at the New Way Bar!
Long ago, Robert was in an avant-garde garage-rock band called Trebor, and has recently regrouped with his brother Robbie - with me on drums! Yes, you heard right - I'm a chic drummer. :-) We are...
View ArticleLetter to Obama
I'm posting yet again to my favorite blog. I will be trying my best to post much more, including on topics that are more personal, different and perhaps very unique. I will also be posting comments I...
View ArticleEdison Hour is Lighting Up Facebook
This Saturday, March 28, 8:30-930 p.m., please be a responsible and grateful Industrial Revolutionist and TURN ON YOUR LIGHTS -- join Edison Hour on Facebook.In a bit of coincidental intellectual...
View ArticleEdison and The Primacy of Existence
As Thomas Edison will be honored tonight through the illumination of his most famous invention, I'd like to post his very interesting "primacy of existence" quote:Nature is what we know. We do not know...
View ArticleUsing Ayn Rand quotes online
I'm back... finally! I'll check in later on where I've been -- but it's basically been fun-filled adventures I've been having.Here is an online comment I made today in response to a smear article...
View ArticleActivism & Original Sin
I highly recommend Dina Schein Federman’s “Ayn Rand as Intellectual Activist” lecture. We have been listening to it at our (very successful!) GLO meetings, and it is amazing in that it sounds exactly...
View ArticleThis blog has moved
This blog is now located at http://kindredist.amynasir.com/. You will be automatically redirected in 30 seconds, or you may click here. For feed subscribers, please update your feed subscriptions to...
View ArticleThe Importance of Moral Judgment
Here is a nice video/reading of an excerpt on moral judgment from "How Does One Lead a Rational Life in an Irrational Society," from the Virtue of Selfishness.If I could change one thing, I would...
View ArticleWhite Stripes on Aristotle
Great song by The White Stripes, and lyrics excerpt below...Well, first came an actionAnd then a reactionBut you can't switch aroundFor your own satisfactionWell, you burnt my house down, then got...
View ArticleIF- by Rudyard Kipling
This poem was one of Ayn Rand's favorites. If my source is correct, she is quoted as saying, "'If' has helped me sometimes in depressed moments, and I hope it does the same for you." Well, it certainly...
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