Ayn Rand didn't like physics?

I've been very busy with work and other functional duties, but this is worth a link.

Jonathan Chait has an excellent essay on Ayn Rand and the irrational beliefs of her followers on the political right. There is much worthy of discussion, from her bizarre upbringing and even more outlandish cult-like cliques through to her and modern conservatism's absurdly anti-factual beliefs regarding worth, work and taxation, but I'd love to follow up on this snippet of information:

(she considered the entire field of physics "corrupt")

Maybe the library will get the biographies referred to in the essay, but I doubt I'll have the time to follow up on Rand's physics hatred. After all, some of us have real work to do.

90 years since the end of World War I

On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 the Armistice between the Allies and the Central Powers came into effect and the Great War, the "war to end all wars," was over. Only a few veterans of WWI now remain to mark the commemoration ceremonies.

My grandfather on my mother's side served in WWI with the South African troops, and took part in the battle of Passchendaele (aka the Third Battle of Ypres). There he was captured by the Germans and spent the rest of the war in a prison camp, but was certainly better off than the 140000 Allied troops who died in that battle alone.