The violins go out of tune in damp weather.

The Mirepoix is from this moment complete.

Rand liked to call her view “objectivism” though some liken it to libertarianism. It reminds me more of an “I got mine” philosophy than of anything else. Most of us live in a world somewhere between the extremes of absolute selfishness and absolute self-abnegation.

Working under such limited circumstances it then is pure chance when we spot a chemical that is not superextreme in its harmful potency.