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OBloggers' Posts of the Week

Before we get to the post of the week, let me first announce the Objectivist Bloggers Carnival over at Kim's Play Place. I keep neglecting to participate, but it's a good thing. Check it out.

Now, the posts of the week:

Ari Armstrong had three posts he submitted to the round-up this week. GREEDY! And I'm a sucker, so here's all three:

208 Commission Rejects Free-Market Proposal: Looks like Colorado has decided to ignore economics, history, and good sense and instead adopt some sort of crazy government-intervention-in-trade plan for health care. Don't worry, Colorado, it probably won't suck as bad as Canada.

Not enough people took him up on his original food challenge, so he's changed it up. I'd like to see him do it, so all you haters, please pledge some dollars.

And the last post is a review of a Rush album. I don't know Rush and I haven't read the review apart from a quick skim to gather the gist: he likes it. I might have to check them out some time.

Rational Jenn isn't nearly as greedy as Ari, but she still submitted two links. This week, she's talking about Peabody, Amelia Peabody. Aaaaactually, she's talking about Elizabeth Peters' The Amelia Peabody Series of books.

Let's see....how to describe Amelia Peabody...she's a proper churchgoing Victorian gentlewoman who wears trousers on archaeological digs, wields a parasol like a saber, cheerfully excavates Egyptian sites despite the heat and other inconveniences (she especially loves pyramids) alongside her husband "the greatest Egyptologist of this or any other age, Radcliffe Emerson," and courageously solves murder-mysteries on the side. You know, just for something to do.

OBVIOUSLY I will have to add this to my list of "things to read one day."

Jenn offers her second post as a supplement to the first with a link to the official Amelia Peabody website.

Eran ALSO submitted two links. (I'm starting to think I was stupid for sending in just the link to my Banksy post below.)

First, he's on a tear about the pompous wordiness that seems to have afflicted writing at this point in time.

Then, to get his mind off of it, he posts some stuff about the Mars rover. Pretty cool!.

That's all that came in yesterday. Enjoy!