Today I completed "The Fountainhead". It's interesting to me that so little mention of family is made by Ayn Rand. Elsworth Tooey, Rand's villian, has a niece, but Roark, Wyland, Domonique -- her heroes are all childless. How does Rand forsee selfishness interfacing with parenthood? I don't think she touches this one, perhaps because it at least clouds, if not invalidates, a lot of what she espouses.

I found this very interesting review of the sequel to "The Fountainhead", "Atlas Shrugged" on the Christian Science Monitor web page this morning and I agree with author Mark Skousen that there's something poisoniness in Rand's Objectivist philosophy.

Thinking back to yesterday's viewing of "The Incredibles", I find myself comparing Elsworth Tooey to Buddy Pine. Mark S. Meritt at Potluck.com writes that "Buddy becomes resentful at having been denied the opportunity to play to his talents and passions." I wonder if the same could have been said of Tooey? I'll have to go back and reexamine the first part of the book...