The beginning of the tournament, girl scouts, and Ayn Rand

Well, I was appalled this morning when I realized that I was going to be actually in the office by 7:30 or so.  =D  One thing that I'm actually getting pretty happy about March Madness starting up, I'm going to have to pick up a guitar pick on the way home.  Then I can spend this evening in the basement trying to figure out how to play while watching Basketball...I'm hoping YouTube pulls through for me with some good lesson videos on electric guitar.  

To comment on the last 66.66% of the title, I heard an interesting story this morning about how there was a girl scout who posted a YouTube video about how everyone should buy girl scout cookies because they're tasty.  She became one of those viral videos that apparently tons of people linked to (although I totally missed it...) and she ended up selling a boatload of cookies.

Here's the squeeze...you're not allowed to sell girl scout cookies online.  So even though she (and her parents, obviously) thought that it was ok to advertise online and sell by mail, the other moms in the troop (or whatever they're called...the "pan" of brownies?) started complaining, and she was disqualified.

Now I understand, she was skirting (no sexism intended) the edges of the rule about selling online...but I'm awfully tired of America's obsession with mediocrity.  It's like that de-motivator poster (http://www.tarantulas.net/funny/graphics/demotivation/underachievement.jpg) that tells you that the best way to get attacked and cut down is to do something that other's can't or didn't think to do.  Yes, she got an "unfair advantage" because she had a video online that others didn't.  She was smarter than the other girl scouts...she got the video up, and followed the letter of the law in taking mail orders, which are not using the internet.  I'm just irritated that our culture has taken to telling little kids that they have to do it a certain way...you'd think we'd be trying to get them to think more entraprenurial instead of stifling the best idea to hit girl scout cookie marketing in years.  

I don't know, maybe I'm way off, but I would have liked to see her get the credit that I think she was due.