Mark Sanford wrote an essay on Ayn Rand for Newsweek this week. Yes, that Mark Sanford. Where to begin? With how crazy it is that Sanford, Governor of South Carolina, is writing an essay about how useless government is to accomplish anything? Or with the irony of Sanford, who took off to South America to visit his mistress for five days while lying to his staff and the state he serves, writing about Objectivism — a philosophy centered on the Virtue of Selfishness? How about the fact that a resolution to impeach Sanford is hitting the South Carolina legislative floor on Tuesday? Missed that reference in the article. And let's not forget the title of his essay: ATLAS HUGGED. (I'm sure if Atlas had been in a romantic Argentinian hideaway, he would have done plenty of other stuff, too.) (more...)