[TASMANIANRED]

I have to admit this chapter was one of my least favorites..

I avoid people like the “party guests” like the plague.

I have to work with a few of them and have a few in my family.

I cannot hold my tongue do I do my level best to avoid hearing their conversation or engaging them.

If I hear someone spilling a load of BS I call it. I also don't have a problem saying “That's a lie’, or “you obviously don't have a clue what you are talking about”.

I'd probably be shunned if I cared enough to notice. I'm not exactly anti social but my social skills don't allow me to slide in b/s without commenting on it.

I suffered with Reardon as he went through this. I'd have been throwing people out of my house.

[Publius]

You sound a bit like Dagny. She was quite cheerful when she volunteered to slap Bertram Scudder.

[whodathunkit]

Judging by the way our country is headed, I think you and everyone of a like mind should call it like it is. Sure, you will p*** off a lot of people (I know I have), but you might be surprised at how many agree with you. Political Correctness is dead as far as I'm concerned.

I suffered with Reardon as he went through this. I'd have been throwing people out of my house.

If this group met at Rearden's Mill, I have no doubt that would have occurred. The house appears to be Lillian's. Rearden seem to want to keep his marriage intact but Lillian has done everything she could to make the evening uncomfortable.