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10. I love this idea

Wed Feb 6, 2013, 03:19 PM

Feb 2013

It's a shame he's not serious.

Half of the kids that like to read will hate it, and all the kids that hate to read will hate it forever.

Kids have the internet now. Forcing them to read Rand's crap will inspire them to read readily available objective criticism of the book.

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Idaho lawmaker�s bill forces students to pass �Atlas Shrugged� test to graduate [View all] Judi Lynn Feb 2013 OP

One man's 'Republican' is another man's 'Simplistic Dumbass.' nt onehandle Feb 2013 #1

This man sees quite a bit of overlap betwwen the two. nt Deep13 Feb 2013 #6

These creeps lsewpershad Feb 2013 #50

Yeah, right............. thelordofhell Feb 2013 #2

Rand may be your religion SCVDem Feb 2013 #3

This is the dumbest thing I've heard in quite a while. beerandjesus Feb 2013 #4

Hear! Hear! icymist Feb 2013 #7

"Ha ha, ony serious" Kelvin Mace Feb 2013 #34

Reading atheist propaganda will offend the Lord Jesus Christ. Deep13 Feb 2013 #5

Oh don't worry, they rationalized that away a long time ago. zeemike Feb 2013 #27

This will make national news...this jerk will be exposed....nt Stuart G Feb 2013 #8

These people have no right to hold office. nt valerief Feb 2013 #9

They aren't QUALIFIED to be dogcatcher maxsolomon Feb 2013 #14

Or the good folks of Diebold. nt valerief Feb 2013 #20

Have you been to Idaho? maxsolomon Feb 2013 #45

No other state can come close to Idaho Blue Idaho Feb 2013 #57

I love this idea FreeBC Feb 2013 #10

It made his son a Republican asshole mokawanis Feb 2013 #11

Curious that The State would think of institutionally mandating Rand's work Orrex Feb 2013 #12

^THIS^ meeshrox Feb 2013 #16

Rand did sign up for Social Security & Medicare in her waning years. red dog 1 Feb 2013 #23

I know. Orrex Feb 2013 #25

That's sarcasm correct? Sekhmets Daughter Feb 2013 #59

"This book sucks" ProudToBeBlueInRhody Feb 2013 #13

I had to read "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx in high school and pass a test on it slackmaster Feb 2013 #15

You equate reading and being tested on a treatise of economic theory with a shitty novel? Ikonoklast Feb 2013 #48

Both are poorly written, long-winded tomes that espouse questionable economic and social theories slackmaster Feb 2013 #60

One is a pamphlet. The other is a billion-page screed to attack that pamphlet. Scootaloo Feb 2013 #53

Great. Jamaal510 Feb 2013 #17

One man's freedom is not! kyeshinka Feb 2013 #18

Just kill me now. nt Mnemosyne Feb 2013 #19

I thought this was The Onion TheOther95Percent Feb 2013 #21

Not the Onion . . . WoodyD Feb 2013 #28

OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! de stoopids de hurts much!!!!! benld74 Feb 2013 #22

Go for it. Ayn Rand made me a liberal. truthisfreedom Feb 2013 #24

It makes perfect sense... procon Feb 2013 #26

I made it through "Atlas Shrugged." mahatmakanejeeves Feb 2013 #29

An ideology based upon fiction AgingAmerican Feb 2013 #30

Isn't government forcing people to do something against Ayn Rand's philosophy? Yavin4 Feb 2013 #31

Is that the one about orcs or the other one? TrogL Feb 2013 #32

The other one, you know, the one based on fantasy. Ikonoklast Feb 2013 #49

Ayn Rand died on MEDICARE and SOCIAL SECURITY!!!! If she couldn't make it without socialized grahamhgreen Feb 2013 #33

What about "The Fountainhead" Kelvin Mace Feb 2013 #35

Atlas Shurgged has rape, too. Seems her heroines can only have sex via rape. SharonAnn Feb 2013 #72

Did you ever catch the movie version of "Fountainhead" Kelvin Mace Feb 2013 #81

She is basically sado-masochistic King_Klonopin Feb 2013 #82

Christ on a cracker. Are they going to supply students with No-Doz too? What a boring pile of crap catbyte Feb 2013 #36

Let me see........ rdharma Feb 2013 #40

It's actually a statewide narcolepsy study. They're only providing the Doz. (nt) Posteritatis Feb 2013 #68

Idaho's Republican Governor Butch Otter wants to gas wolf pups in their dens red dog 1 Feb 2013 #37

Might as well ask students to pass a Bible Test amb123 Feb 2013 #38

I wish that I could ask this guy, Goedde, to describe what's it's like to be a rocket scientist nt MrScorpio Feb 2013 #39

This is the religion the Tea/Repukes want to force down our young ones' throats!! hue Feb 2013 #41

Might backfire, anyway. silverweb Feb 2013 #42

Methinks Sen. Goedde knows this won't fly...... rdharma Feb 2013 #43

on the tax payer's dime too ! $ + time waster lunasun Feb 2013 #79

Read the entire posting: Goedde wasn't serious; he was trying to make some point or other... Moonwalk Feb 2013 #44

"I read the whole thing and still think him stupid." rdharma Feb 2013 #54

Well, at this point playing to the teabagger base is becoming a stupid idea as it seems... Moonwalk Feb 2013 #66

......but the music isn't being listened to. rdharma Feb 2013 #80

I don't know who first wrote the following, SnowCritter Feb 2013 #46

Screenwriter John Rogers rdharma Feb 2013 #56

Than I would not graduate. jwirr Feb 2013 #47

I picked up this book steelhead77 Feb 2013 #51

Thank you for doing the right thing. lumpy Feb 2013 #64

Dafuq? sakabatou Feb 2013 #52

To quote Hank Hill: I don't know whether to laugh or vomit. Initech Feb 2013 #55

Good idea... Kalidurga Feb 2013 #58

As Dorothy Parker said "This is not a book to be set aside lightly." hatrack Feb 2013 #61

John Goedde is a worthless piece of shit. Blue Idaho Feb 2013 #62

tell us how you really feel about idaho..... madrchsod Feb 2013 #63

Then there's Sheryl 'Obamacare-equals-the-Holocaust' Nuxoll IDemo Feb 2013 #70

Sad but very true. Blue Idaho Feb 2013 #75

Good Gawd...can you say, UNCONSTITUTIONAL! SoapBox Feb 2013 #65

Big time. aquart Feb 2013 #76

Tell me again . . . Brigid Feb 2013 #67

So he feels he had no influence as a parent on his son's views suffragette Feb 2013 #69

I would rather pass a kidney stone Tom Ripley Feb 2013 #71

It's a fucking NOVEL HeiressofBickworth Feb 2013 #73

This must be the "indoctrination" I keep hearing about Supply Side Jesus Feb 2013 #74

The shame is that the GOP in ID can run through anything they want, and the dems can't stop hrmjustin Feb 2013 #77

K&R DeSwiss Feb 2013 #78

He's impressed with himself because it's the first book he's read that didn't have Rush's face on it yurbud Feb 2013 #83