[dangus]

Damn, I hate it when conservatives accept liberal BS. Michelangelo was not a homosexual. His contemporaries sneered about what he was doing with corpses, and he wrote in a very flush tone about male friends, but which were normal before men had to worry about being called homosexual.

(seriously, look at the way he draws a weenie, and tell me he was a homosexual.)

And by the way, I get the larger point you’re trying to make, but it doesn’t really hold up for Ayn Rand. Her books aren’t mere fiction; they are philosophy which uses fiction to contextualize her sermons. The fact she so terribly fails to live up to her own standards and found the lifestyles she propounded to be such miserable suffering shows she does not understand the human nature she proposes to instruct us about.

[TigersEye]

Damn, I hate it when conservatives accept liberal BS. Michelangelo was not a homosexual. His contemporaries sneered about what he was doing with corpses, and he wrote in a very flush tone about male friends, but which were normal before men had to worry about being called homosexual.

That was Da Vinci not Michelangelo.

[woofie]

the writer of this article want to say that the Republican party is a cult of Rand fanatics ...I dont buy it . She is one thinker among many

and Michealangelo walked funny

[Talisker]

The fact she so terribly fails to live up to her own standards and found the lifestyles she propounded to be such miserable suffering shows she does not understand the human nature she proposes to instruct us about.

Dostoevsky beat his wife, and Hemingway committed suicide. Thanks for warning me away from their writings.

Michelangelo was not a homosexual. ...he wrote in a very flush tone about male friends...

LOL - indeed, very flush tones... darling.

[carcraft]

I told my children “you always have to try to understand things in the context in which they are done, nothing occurs in a vacuum” In the thirties and forty's there was an admiration for communism. Ayn Rand countered it. Would the writer of the Slate article rather live in Stalin's Russia or Greenspan’s America. I found Rand wrong about individualism and altruism. Where would America be with out Washington willing to sacrifice all? Many of our founders fought for liberty but owned slaves. Does that make the freedom they supported wrong? Man can not survive as an individual but society can progress with out individualism! I think God loves irony!