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A tiny, weeny WTF_Nature wank...
I was unsure whether to post this here or iwank, but I posted twice, once to LOL and once to say, "Dude, you're being really annoying", so I figure it might go better here. Right.

WTF_Nature is a super fun community on LJ devoted to the crazy shit nature comes up with. Freak storms. Animals we didn't know existed. Animals that do exist but mutate. If it's in nature, and it makes you go "WTF", it's in the comm.

Yesterday, writerspleasure decided to post about a species of goby in South African waters that has turned on its natural predator, the jellyfish, and made those squishy suckers into their dinner. A really interesting subject, full of fascinating ramifications for the local ecosystem in that area. For some reason, he brought in an Ayn Rand reference.

markslj is tired of this political bullshit.

Wank is soon in the waters once the first blood is shed.

pazi_ashfeather makes a comment on writerspleasure's behaviour.

Thing degenerate and get mighty personal after that, all while the both of them argue about Ayn Rand. I don't know why, but people arguing about Ayn Rand always makes me laugh.

So anyway, one minute you think it's over, but those crazy kids start up the argument again in another thread. Are the Bearded Gobys Libertarians or Bolsheviks? A question for the ages!

Ahhh... Ayn Rand. *chuckle* Tiny, to be sure, but like the Bearded Goby, kind of cute as well.

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	warrioreowyn 2010-07-22 01:00 am UTC (link)
	Never read Rand, but I felt that way about Gone with the Wind. Spent five minutes kicking it around the room when I finally finished reading it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	darksumomo 2010-07-22 02:33 am UTC (link)
	My ex-wife told me that to understand her I had to read Gone with the Wind and pay particular attention to Scarlett O'Hara. After one or two pages, I put the book down, never to pick it up again. I could not stand Scarlett. Within two years, we were divorced. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	snarkhunter 2010-07-22 12:40 pm UTC (link)
	Oh...dear. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	librarianmouse 2010-07-22 03:49 pm UTC (link)
	I really hate Scarlett O'Hara. She's a jerk. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	erototoxin 2010-07-26 02:25 am UTC (link)
	Wow, if only you'd read it BEFORE you got involved... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	darksumomo 2010-07-27 04:09 am UTC (link)
	It was much too late. She made this suggestion 10 years into the relationship and 8 years into the marriage. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	snarkhunter 2010-07-22 12:41 pm UTC (link)
	I threw Tess of the D'Urbervilles when I finished reading it the first time. (I've had to read it more than once...and am actually teaching it this fall despite my loathing.) Of course, it's actually a good book, if one with a completely wretched and infuriating story. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bluenakedlady 2010-07-26 05:52 pm UTC (link)
	There's only one book that ever topped Tess of the D'Urbervilles in the 'Throw It Hard Enough To Leave A Dent In The Wall' stakes: Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded. Excuse me, I will just be over there having horrible, horrible flashbacks. (Reply to this)(Parent)

cmdr_zoom
2010-07-22 06:52 pm UTC (link)

"The Throne of Saturn" ("a novel of space and politics", by Allen Drury, 1970) intrigued me when I found it in a free bin because it featured an alternate/extended Apollo program. I soon discovered the astronauts are all firm-jawed paragons of American manhood except for the token black (and yes, in-universe he is on the program purely as a token) and the strawmen liberals are credulous dupes of the monstrously EEEEEVIL Russians.

I have never been so tempted to destroy a book. I ended up returning it to the bin.

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