Last Week Tonight with John Oliver has the segment “How is Ayn Rand Still a Thing”

Ayn Rand has always been popular with teenagers. She’s something you’re supposed to grow out of like SKA music or handjobs.

The older people who still haven’t figured out what’s wrong with her ideas are in a serious state of arrested development. They have a firm idea on the way the world ought to be without any understanding that the world is nothing like their idea and never can be.

Thanks to Elizabeth St. John for posting this on her Facebook page.

Former Massachusetts Chief Park Ranger Curt Rudge explains why it’s so important to vote Yes on Question 2 on Nov. 4 to stop bottle litter in Massachusetts and expand the Bottle Bill. Big beverage companies are spending over $5 million to say things are fine the way they are–but Ranger Curt has seen bottles without a deposit on them from sports drinks, iced tea, and water are piling up as litter in our beautiful state. He’s seen the damage this litter does to our parks. That’s why we need to vote Yes on Question 2 on November 4. (30 seconds)

As on who lives on a busy rural road, I can attest to what Ranger Curt has to say. The litter I see at the edges of my property has few returnables in it. What little there is is scavenged by people who can make a few cents returning it. The rest just hangs around as litter. I am not about to be the trash collector for the clods who throw this stuff out their windows.

I have been tempted to post the following sign, but I know that would just escalate the war.

The Real News Network has the interview After Eric Holder Resigns, A Look at His Record on Bank Prosecutions.

And as you mentioned, this administration, and Eric Holder in particular, are known for the viciousness of their war against whistleblowers. What the public doesn’t know–and it doesn’t know because of Eric Holder–is that in the three biggest cases involving banks–again, none of them, not a single prosecution of the elite bankers that drove this crisis–all three of those cases, against Citicorp, against JPMorgan, and against Bank of America, were made possible by whistleblowers. Eric Holder was the czar at the Department of Justice press conferences in each of these three cases, and he and the Justice Department officials, the senior Justice Department officials, at those press conferences, never mentioned the role of the whistleblowers–never praised the whistleblowers and never used those press conferences as a forum for asking whistleblowers to come forward. And so your viewers should take a look at the Frontline special on this, where the Frontline producers made clear that as soon as word got out that they were investigating the area, dozens of whistleblowers came forward, and each of them had the same story: the Department of Justice had never contacted them.

This Department of “Justice” seems to have the uncanny knack of going after the innocent and protecting the guilty. I think it is pretty clear that Eric Holder did an excellent job of carrying out the directions of President Obama. If I were a little less cynical, I would be left wondering how this administration could have let us down so badly.