Much has been made in recent weeks of Ryan's bizarrely Objectivist leaning. Rand was something akin to enemy #1 in my household. A personal friend of my father's mother, Ayn convinced my grandma during a book club meeting that my father was not allowed to go to commie Harvard, with its commie professors, where he would become, naturally, a pinko commie liberal. My dad endured four years at the University of Virginia instead, where the appropriately right leaning students stole his yarmulke and voted for Nixon. My grandma was really just a fan of ideologies with no real concern for their mutual exclusivity, also paying egregious amounts for a levitation class with the Maharishi (my father says she really looked more like a frog hopping around the room in lotus position).
Which is why she would surely have been elated by the strange nexus of Ayn Rand and yoga apparel company Lulu Lemon. The popular pants come in a red, reusable bag with irksome life affirmations on the side. Customers spit up their kombucha last fall upon reading amid the "life is todays" the question "who is John Galt?" Galt being the lead character from Atlas Shrugged (this is hardly the most disturbing, I once got a bag that said "children are the orgasm of life"). The head of the company, who- similarly to Ryan- discovered Rand during college, says he loves the ideal of "rising above the mediocrity," of, you know, the rest of us.
My real question: does Paul Ryan wear them to P90-X?
Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/28/business/media/combines-ayn-rand-and-yoga.html
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