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Some Bus Slogan Fun

Updates with others’ slogans!

Hattip to Mark Shea for calling my attention to this. I think everyone should try it.  You just enter your own particular slogan, and it will generator a bus with your slogan on it.  Nifty!

Here’s mine:

There's probably no other culprit

Iwestin's slogan
Iwestin's slogan
Mark DeFrancisis's slogan
Mark DeFrancisis's slogan
Darwin's slogan
Darwin's slogan
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Michael J. Iafrate
Tuesday, February 10, AD 2009 10:49pm

Hmm. Your bus slogan seems to deny the Catholic belief in the social nature of the human person. Did you mean to imply such a denial?

Michael J. Iafrate
Tuesday, February 10, AD 2009 10:49pm

Why am I in moderation?

Michael J. Iafrate
Tuesday, February 10, AD 2009 10:49pm

Is it because your guest commentator Tito Edwards said so?

Tito Edwards
Tuesday, February 10, AD 2009 11:36pm

Keep the laughs coming Michael.

You make me laugh and I like that.

😀

Gerard E.
Gerard E.
Wednesday, February 11, AD 2009 8:00am

Uh, Mike- is Tito laughing at or with you? Choose.

lwestin
Wednesday, February 11, AD 2009 8:30am

“He’s Probably GOD, So Stop Complaining, And Fall To Your Knees!

Mark DeFrancisis
Mark DeFrancisis
Wednesday, February 11, AD 2009 10:15am

This blog has elements that remind me of meetings of the College Libertarians that got too rowdy, you know, whenever too much Mountain Dew was consumed and too many stories of first adolescent encounters with Ayn Rand were shared.

John Henry
Wednesday, February 11, AD 2009 10:20am

“This blog has elements that remind me of meetings of the College Libertarians that got too rowdy, you know, whenever too much Mountain Dew was consumed and too many stories of first adolescent encounters with Ayn Rand were shared.”

heh. I thought that was pretty funny, although I’m not sure how accurate it was given Rand’s hatred for all things Catholic.

DarwinCatholic
DarwinCatholic
Wednesday, February 11, AD 2009 10:21am

too many stories of first adolescent encounters with Ayn Rand were shared.

It’s true that Ayn could be a bit predatory, but I think all the guys hear can claim to be innocent of having enjoyed her charms…

Oh, you meant reading Ayn Rand.

Mark DeFrancisis
Mark DeFrancisis
Wednesday, February 11, AD 2009 10:25am

Ryan,

…just having fun with you…

For whatever it’s worth, I enjoy quite a bit of your posts.

You put much thought in what you write and attempt to be very fair with your interlocutors.

I also see that you are not afraid to alter your opinions, having the healthy awareness and the humimility to realize that we are all “on our way”, in the attainment of a fuller wisdom.

Michael J. Iafrate
Wednesday, February 11, AD 2009 10:31am

heh. I thought that was pretty funny, although I’m not sure how accurate it was given Rand’s hatred for all things Catholic.

Nevertheless, I wonder how many AC bloggers appreciate Rand’s thought. It’s not uncommon for Catholics to “overlook” her anti-Christian views because they are just oh-so into her philosophy. My Jesuit alma mater’s business department literally hands a copy of Atlas Shrugged to every incoming freshman business major and sponsors an Ayn Rand lecture series.

What would your bus slogan say?

I’ll certainly think about it.

Mark DeFrancisis
Mark DeFrancisis
Wednesday, February 11, AD 2009 10:41am

Ryan,

I am a theological sap. I think Id put something like , “Jesus humbled himself to share fully in all our humanity, so that we may fully share in his divinity. Know him.”

DarwinCatholic
DarwinCatholic
Reply to  Michael J. Iafrate
Wednesday, February 11, AD 2009 10:46am

Nevertheless, I wonder how many AC bloggers appreciate Rand’s thought. It’s not uncommon for Catholics to “overlook” her anti-Christian views because they are just oh-so into her philosophy. My Jesuit alma mater’s business department literally hands a copy of Atlas Shrugged to every incoming freshman business major and sponsors an Ayn Rand lecture series.

If so that’s pretty pathetic. Rand was lousy as an economist, as a political philosopher, and as a writer. I’m pretty sure that the economics departments at places like University of Chicago and George Mason would never hand out Atlas Shrugged to freshman as if it were serious writing. If the business department at your college did, they sound like they were clueless more than free market.

Mark DeFrancisis
Mark DeFrancisis
Wednesday, February 11, AD 2009 10:51am

Did I not read somewhere that Alan Greenspan is a big fan of Rand?

Anybody hear likewise and able to fill me in on the details?

Mark DeFrancisis
Mark DeFrancisis
Wednesday, February 11, AD 2009 10:56am

Ryan,

I always need an editor (even after 5 self-edits) :). Whatever it takes.

blackadderiv
blackadderiv
Wednesday, February 11, AD 2009 10:57am

My first encounter with Rand was right after highschool. A few of my friends had fallen in love with her stuff and just wouldn’t shut up about her. Finally, after a lot of cajoling, I agreed to read Atlas Shrugged. I got about two thirds of the way through it, but when they arrived at the libertarian paradise where no one did anything for anyone except for pay and therefore everything cost a nickle, I was no longer able to continue.

Donald R. McClarey
Admin
Wednesday, February 11, AD 2009 11:02am

Atlas shrugged was a pretty puerile novel, as most overtly political novels are. It sold well no doubt due to the dollops of sex that Rand poured into it, at a time when such elements were still a relative rarity in respectable novels. Whittaker Chambers had Rand’s number as both a novelist and a philosopher in perhaps the most devastating review written in America in the last century.

http://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/flashback200501050715.asp

Since that review “Objectivists” and main stream conservatives have largely gone their separate ways.

blackadderiv
blackadderiv
Wednesday, February 11, AD 2009 11:03am

Did I not read somewhere that Alan Greenspan is a big fan of Rand?

He was in her inner circle. In fact, as I recall, he was one of the few people privileged enough to have an essay appear in one of Rand’s books. It was about how abandoning the gold standard would lead to disaster. Given Greenspan’s time at the Fed, I think it’s safe to say he’s a lapsed Randian.

Rothbard wrote a pretty funny one act play about Rand, called Mozart Was A Red. If you google it you can find a transcript and video of a performance from the 1980s.

Mark DeFrancisis
Mark DeFrancisis
Wednesday, February 11, AD 2009 11:05am

Ryan,

Thanks for the websearchs. Now I see I could have easliy googled it myself.
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I am embarassed to admit, but I got a ‘little drunk and enamored’ as a 17 year old, reading The Fountainhead. But looking back, I wonder if I understood even a word of what she was getting at. I read so voraciously and indiscriminately pre-college.

DarwinCatholic
DarwinCatholic
Reply to  Mark DeFrancisis
Wednesday, February 11, AD 2009 11:13am

To be fair, a number of good friends went through Randian phases, before getting over it and going on to become thoughtful adults.

On slogans, could would I be overly caustic to suggest:
What you’re thinking is at least partly wrong,
So have some humility and don’t say things you’ll regret.

paul zummo
Admin
Wednesday, February 11, AD 2009 11:51am

Sorry, but every time I hear Ayn Rand mentioned, I flashback to the South Park episode in which Officer Barbrady learns to read.

Christopher
Admin
Wednesday, February 11, AD 2009 5:55pm

My Jesuit alma mater’s business department literally hands a copy of Atlas Shrugged to every incoming freshman business major and sponsors an Ayn Rand lecture series.

Oy vey! — The Jesuits have a bad reputation as it is. Let’s not further ridicule them with such anecdotes.

Michael J. Iafrate
Wednesday, February 11, AD 2009 6:02pm

Let’s not further ridicule them with such anecdotes.

Right. Let’s ignore their conservative tendencies so you can keep insisting that they are “liberals” and “dissidents.”

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