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Pope Joe Returns Home!
Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 8/16/2004, 11:46pm
The delightful Joe Rowlands left New Zealand this morning on his way back to Silicon Valley, after a three-week vacation Chez Linz. He picked a good day to leave - the harsh cold of winter really began to bite this morning, probably *because* he'd removed the sunny warmth of his own presence. Several NZ SOLOists will h...(Read more...)
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Welcome to SOLO Florida
Posted by Luther Setzer on 8/18/2004, 11:14am
This new welcome message for the SOLO Florida Web site strives to help newcomers get a speedy introduction to the most salient aspects of Objectivism.  It employs the widely used concepts of the Franklin Covey company and Microsoft Outlook in an attempt to make the Objectivist ethics obviously relevant.  As SOLO Club C...(Read more...)
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The Necessity of Road Privatization
Posted by G. Stolyarov II on 8/19/2004, 8:28pm
The roads of today need not be pitiful even by ancient standards. Privatization, argues G. Stolyarov II, would eliminate the need for virtually all significant road maintenance and repairs and return roads to an impeccable condition not witnessed since the days of Ancient Rome. ...(Read more...)
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Unsanctioning Unsanctioning! :-)
Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 8/20/2004, 8:04pm
SOLOists We've taken on board the very legitimate gripes about how the unsanctioning system was being used vindictively in a couple of cases, & might be discouraging some folk from expressing their opinions with full candour. We acknowledge that it also enabled folk to bag someone's contribution & pull him down ...(Read more...)
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Popped Clog: Bernard Levin
Posted by Peter Cresswell on 8/23/2004, 5:03am
Bernard Levin is dead. He was my very favourite columnist -- for my five years in London he was the single best reason to buy The Times. Never once in the nearly five-hundred or so columns of his that I eagerly consumed did he fail to include a nugget of crucial wisdom or a delightful gem of vitriol, or to disp...(Read more...)
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SOLO Delivers More Quickly Than Fedex!!
Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 8/25/2004, 2:59am
SOLOists - I draw your attention to the three new interest groups now listed here (below, left) as per Joe's article about the "to-do" list he & I drew up when he was here in NZ, & follow-up suggestions. Namely: SOLO Food (naturally encompassing wine as well) - hosted by the delectable Jennifer Iannolo. ...(Read more...)
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SOLO Delivers Faster Than The Speed Of Light
Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 8/26/2004, 3:38pm
Further to our announcement of new clubs two days ago, here are some more. Just scroll down & look leftward for: 1) SOLO Think Tank. Leonard Peikoff said of philosophies in general that their fundamental principles are immutable, but "new implications, applications, integrations can always be discovered....(Read more...)
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British Cleaner Thought Art Was Garbage
Posted by Peter Cresswell on 8/26/2004, 10:00pm
... and she was right. Sadly, a Tate Gallery Spokesman disagreed. (Read more...)
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Calling All Good Men & Women ...
Posted by Lindsay Perigo on 8/27/2004, 5:20pm
... to come to the aid of the party. Or at least to the aid of the editor of The Free Radical, i.e. moi. I'm starting work on Issue 64. I need Horror File items, &, in keeping with FreeRad's increasingly cosmopolitan tone, I need them from all over the world. Just two or three sentences of a nauseating news item, date ...(Read more...)
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Objectivism in Academia
Posted by Irfan Khawaja on 8/29/2004, 3:42pm
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