The title of the blog post is MY title, not Rand's. I'm not certain I grasp what your complaint is about here, nor why you feel it necessary to engage in name calling.

Any philosophy has two cornerstones: its metaphysics (fundamental view of reality) and its epistemology (its theory of knowledge, particularly its theory of concepts). This blog post is partially based on Rand's writings in "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology", which I will now quote, pertaining specifically to values:

"A moral code is a set of abstract principles; to practice it, an individual must translate it to the appropriate concretes - HE MUST CHOOSE the particular goals and VALUES WHICH HE IS TO PURSUE." (emphasis mine)

Is it really a big leap from what she describes above to the word "evaluation"? Are you not, in fact, EVALUATING when you are "choosing the particular goals and values" you are to pursue?

I quote further: "This requires that he define his particular hierarchy of values, in the order of their importance, and that he act accordingly."

I'm not certain where your criticism is coming from; it seems to me Rand is making the same point that I'm making, so unless you think she was being "lazy, stupid and meaningless" when she wrote it, I think you're off track. She DID write other things besides "Atlas Shrugged", you know, including actual non-fiction philosophical works - perhaps you should crack one open.

One more thing: "Atlas Shrugged" is indeed Rand's opus, but no philosophy is based on "a single sentence".

"A is A" is a derivation of Aristotle's assertion that " the fact that a thing is itself" from Metaphysics Book VII Part 17. It was Aristotle who offered the first logical presentation of the Law of Identity. Aristotle never said "A is A" but this does not make Rand "lazy, stupid, and meaningless".