While waiting in the dark, first in line for the release of the new Palm Pre today, I continued reading several chapters of Atlas Shrugged. I got to Francisco’s monologue on money. The truth of it made me so sick I almost got out of line and shrugged off Palm and Sprint. I’m still half sorry I didn’t.

I may not have been heroic today, but I’m going to find more and more sleazy corporations and causes to shrug off in the future. I’m going to lighten my load and take it easy. No sense working hard when government is going to take it all away. California and the IRS already take most of my income. Retirement savings (can’t count on Social Insecurity) takes up another 12%. Whatever’s left over is hardly enough to pay the bills.