I’ve not read Rand’s Atlas Shrugged in years but I recall the scene of the Taggart Tunnel Disaster (where the incompents allow a coal fired train to go into a tunnel, killing all the people aboard), where Rand highlights a few of the victims’ own participation in the general irrationalism of the times, I suppose to show that ideas have consequences. Something similar occurs to me re the Kelo case. I don’t know who the Kelos are, but is it relevant? Does it matter? Let’s say we find out they are democrats. Or, regular Americans who believe in the typical … Continue reading Kelo and the Taggart Tunnel Disaster