I'm very happy to have landed in the Gulch...a number of years back, when I was in college, I did not have classes one particular afternoon. One of my roommates had the television on in the living room, and he had tuned to a local station that showed a movie every afternoon. The movie for that day was "The Fountainhead", with Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal. I was mesmerized. The credits said that the film was from a novel by Ayn Rand. So, I went to the library, read a copy of "The Fountainhead"; I loved it. So, I then read a copy of "Atlas Shrugged"; ditto. I found Rand's nonfiction books, and read those as well. I also read Murray Rothbard's "For A New Liberty". As a result, I have been a libertarian (both big "L" and small "l") ever since. All because of that afternoon movie!