крестовый поход детей против социализма

В последнем выпуске New Republic, прелестный наброс про Айн Рэнд и ее последователей сегодня:

Around the age of five, Alissa Rosenbaum's mother instructed her to put away some of her toys for a year. She offered up her favorite possessions, thinking of the joy that she would feel when she got them back after a long wait. When the year had passed, she asked her mother for the toys, only to be told she had given them away to an orphanage. Heller remarks that "this may have been Rand's first encounter with injustice masquerading as what she would later acidly call ‘altruism.’ " (The anti-government activist Grover Norquist has told a similar story from childhood, in which his father would steal bites of his ice cream cone, labelling each bite "sales tax" or "income tax." The psychological link between a certain form of childhood deprivation and extreme libertarianism awaits serious study.)

Они что там, сговорились все?

idle chatter, pt. 872

S. (coming back from Weaver St Market): I've bought some Honeycrisp apples.
Me (after a while): It says on Wikipedia that Honeycrisp apples were developed at the University of Minnesota.
S.: ...
Me: It also says that the Honeycrisp apple is the Minnesota state fruit.
S.: ...
Me: And Michele Bachmann is the Minnesota state nut. Wikipedia doesn't say that, I just came up with it myself.
S.: Someone else must have thought of it before.
Me (after having googled for it): What do you know? No one has!