Comments on: There are no gimmes in Galt Golf. You have to earn it.

By: lifewithbill

lifewithbill — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:19:17 +0000

I hope Rush spends more time on the golf links because his heart will know just where to find him when it finally attacks…

And if Lisa Schiffren were my mother, I would be a suicide. No, scratch that. Because Lisa Schiffren is a sour, bitter, humorless, god-bothering scold, I would actually have to commit matricide instead.

And no jury outside of the range of Fred Phelps’ extended family of parasites would ever convict me.

By: TBogg

TBogg — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:40:59 +0000

Dating A Banker turned out to be a put-on. The NYT got suckered.

By: Turbodog

Turbodog — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 03:46:45 +0000

Somehow you feel that Lisa Schiffren’s husband just had to break the bad news to his mistress….

No need to feel it somehow, there’s hard evidence. This NY Times article describes the support group “Dating A Banker Anonymous.” Does your sugar daddy or once-rich boyfriend worry more about his own bottom line than yours? Well, it hurts, and you need to talk to other girls who understand. After all, when “your monthly Bergdorf’s allowance has been halved and bottle service has all but disappeared from your life,” you need to talk to someone who’s been there, who understands.

A Manhattan divorce lawyer — and who would know better — said: “There aren’t funds or time for mistresses any more.”

[N.B.: Click the link. This is not a parody.]

By: dilbertdogbert

dilbertdogbert — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:41:45 +0000

Just took my documents to the CPA that does my taxes. He is a good friend that was the partner of my late wife. I asked him how the economy looked through the eyes of his small business clients. They are doing a Full Galt Montie. They are laying off early and laying off hard. I don’t think they are Galting because of taxes. They are Galting because business is bad!
Enjoy the GD 2.0

By: tejanarusa

tejanarusa — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:16:06 +0000

Oh, that’s easy - they’re DEFENSE lawyers - the people who defend the corporate malfeasers, like the peanut company that ignored salmonella, the manufacturers of dangerous equipment/vehicles, etc. It’s different, y’know, when you work for the ruling class.

Notice they always complain about “trial lawyers” - by definition, plaintiffs’ lawyers. This is one reason they so hated John Edwards.

By: CatStaff

CatStaff — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:48:32 +0000

Wouldn’t that be “working effluent”?

I know, it was low-hanging fruit, but it’s Friday, and I’ve had bronchitis all week.

By: MrTentacle

MrTentacle — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:18:17 +0000

The rich irony of the “Galters” plans to take advantage of the very social services they claim to despise is priceless. It’s a shame that a prerequisite for Randians is lack of any sense of irony (or humor), or in face “any sense”.

By: nothstine

nothstine — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:21:37 +0000

I’m reminded of that great story told by Richard (”Nixonland”) Perlstein:

Republicans are different from conservatives: that was one of the first lessons I learned when I started interviewing YAFers. I learned it making small talk with conservative publisher Jameson Campaigne, in Ottawa, Illinois, when I asked him if he golfed. He said something like: “Are you kidding? I’m a conservative, not a Republican.”

By: Tangerine

Tangerine — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:28:40 +0000

I e-mailed this hag: “Ms. Schiffren, tell us why moving the marginal rate from 36 to 39 on incomes over $250,000 is so onerous. This is utter bullshit and deep down you must know it. Every dollar one of you ‘achievers’ makes over 250 grand, you keep 61 cents instead of 64. My God, how will you live? You do realize that top rates were 60-70-80 in the ’50s and ’60s, yet somehow we managed economic growth without as much caterwauling from the ‘working affluent’ about the unfairness of it all. And if tax cuts are magic, where were the jobs created by Bush’s $1.3 trillion for the rich — I’m sorry, the ‘working affluent’? Didn’t you tell us Clinton’s tax hike on the W.A. would kill the economy? You were so wildly wrong the scale can’t measure the wrongness. Geezus Christ — I know it’s hard to change a world view but come on!”

By: JeanArf

JeanArf — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:41:34 +0000

I can see why you’re chapped, cowalker, especially if the church people are just flinging those sandwiches out willy-nilly, not even running a basic background check on everybody who shuffles through the line! They’re probably being ripped off, to the tune of pounds of bologna, by our nation’s Galtian superproducers. Serves ‘em right.