Brett Kimberlin is more than a bit odd. He has all sorts of quirks such as wearing white socks with a business suit. The TKPOTD from eight years ago dealt with one of the early influences in his life. The post was titled Dread Pirate #BrettKimberlin, Randian.
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What were the influences on the young Brett Kimberlin that formed his character? Mark Singer records an unlikely one on page 62 of Citizen K.
The experience of reading Ayn Rand, especially Atlas Shrugged, “changed my life.” He admired the way Rand’s characters rigidly “stuck to their principles” and jealously guarded their independence.
I suppose that at least partially explains his lack of altruism.
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Howard Roark and John Galt unavailable for comment.
His Fraudulency ran on having a plan to end the pandemic. It turns out that it’s the same as Richard Nixon’s secret plan to end the Viet Nam war—disengage and let things wind down on their own.
His Fraudulency is only LARPing at leadership.
NGC 2174 (aka Monkey Head Nebula) is an emission nebula in a star-forming region in the constellation Orion. This infrared image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows mountainous clouds of gas and dust carved by winds and radiation from the region’s newborn stars.
One on the most effective political cartoonists of the middle of the 20th century was Herbert Block who drew under the name of Herblock for the Washington Post. He always gave his caricature of Richard Nixon five o’clock shadow. Herblock clearly despised Nixon, but the day after the 1968 election, he published the cartoon on the left as a way of congratulating Nixon on winning the election. It wasn’t long before the five o’clock shadow reappeared.
