The smokestack is the sacred fire of enterprise: When the Penguinhead Jedi, the religiots and the Nu Marxists are momentarily quiet, there are always the Ayn Rand fans to provide your daily dose of irritainment. Objectivist groups, including the Center for the Moral Defense of Capitalism (which has the dubious honour of having been the only group not based in Redmond to have defended Microsoft's business practices) are now protesting Earth Day:

Bernstein said Earth Day 2001's theme of "Leave your car at home" expresses the environmentalists' fundamental contempt for industrial society, progress and human values. "Without automobiles there would be little commerce, communication or freedom," he said. "The goal of the environmentalists is to see man crawling back to the cave."

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