Dude, I've got a broken dell!

My laptop won't start up properly, so I'm having to author this post at Rice Library on the beautiful, and very hot USI campus. Jake E, my fellow teammate/roommate, has been studying for the DAT (a dental school entrance exam). From what I hear, it's pretty darn tough and he's been studying 4-6 hours a day for the past month. Whatever the case, he's been getting help from an older fellow by the name of Dana. After Jake and I had gotten into a heated debate over the war on drugs during an 8 mile run, he told me that Dana had similar views to mine. Two days later, Jake came home with two books by Ayn Rand that were a gift to me from Dana: The Virtue of Selfishness and Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal. Thus far, I am a quarter of the way through The Virtue of Selfishness and I find it to be an awesome read. The book is very similar to the economic philosophies found in Friedman's Free To Choose, but it focuses on the individual's ability to achieve happiness in life through freedom rather than the positive economic impacts of individualist policy. One of the only things that I do not agree with is Rand's idea that the belief in a higher power is irrational (she was an atheist), but this does not take away from the rest of the ideas she introduces. I highly recommend this read. Thanks Dana... you rock!