Thank you Roger for the insight and I believe as you do a “pretty thin gruel.” Atlas Shrugged really seems to have become a fad as of late. Some of my Liberal friends mock me for not reading it but if I wanted to read an epic novel I could read War and Peace for a second time or Dr. Zhivago for a third. At least with Dr. Zhivago I’d be brushing up on the anarchy that occurs when a world government fails and the oligarchy that follows. Real food for thought. With Ayn Rand it appears that what you get are a bunch of unproven ideals closely related to what socialism offers. Pretty thin gruel indeed.