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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Our Daughter Isn’t a Selfish Brat; Your Son Just Hasn’t Read “Atlas Shrugged”.

by Eric Franklin on August 12, 2010

When little Aiden toddled up our daughter Johanna and asked to play with her Elmo ball, he was, admittedly, very sweet and polite. I think his exact words were, “Have a ball, peas [sic]?” And I’m sure you were very proud of him for using his manners. To be sure, I was equally proud when Johanna yelled, “No! Looter!” right in his looter face, and then only marginally less proud when she sort of shoved him.

What it would have been like to have Ayn Rand as a parent. Shudder.

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