[NatureGirl]

Thank you. It's always good to see a straightforward explanation of Ayn Rand's principles. I always worry that people just don't get what "sanction of the victim" really means.

And as to her predictions coming true - I don't think that a week will go by, here on FR, where I won't read something that sounds as if it's right out of Atlas Shrugged.

[RightWhale]

something that sounds as if it's right out of Atlas Shrugged.

Including trains running off the tracks and lights going out in California.

[Bob]

I don't think that a week will go by, here on FR, where I won't read something that sounds as if it's right out of Atlas Shrugged.

Like a parallel between Tyco CEO Kozlowski's $6000 shower curtain and the boss's bathroom at 20th Century Motors? (I seem to recall that his was cut glass, though) :-)