<p> It doesn&#39;t surprise me in the least to find that Ayn Rand abandoned her principles when the time came that they were truly tested–many, perhaps most, people would do the same.</p> <p> The thing that annoys me is that she, and her followers, would actively seek to deny others the same option of which she took advantage, justifying it with a &#34;philosophy&#34; suited only to tedious jeremiads masquerading as novels.</p> <p> <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-ford/ayn-rand-and-the-vip-dipe_b_792184.html">Read it and weep</a>.</p>