April Fools Site: Website 15.0!!!

Posted April 1, 2004, 4:03 p.m.

To mess with people, I decided I would come up with a crappy design for my site and put it up as an April Fools joke. Here is the supposed “Website 15.0!!!” that went up on that day. Made in 2004.

Website 15.0!!! April Fools.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

Quotes

It is not just an accident that in our age inflation has become the accepted method of monetary management. Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

The key feature of Communist propaganda has been the depiction of people who are more productive as mere exploiters of others.

The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.

The more numerous an assembly may be, of whatever characters composed, the greater is known to be the ascendency of passion over reason.

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

Every one who is seriously engaged in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that the laws of nature manifest the existence of a spirit vastly superior to that of men, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.

We believe that every person is precious, that people are more important than things, and that the measure of every institution is whether it threatens or enhances the life and dignity of the human person.

Behold, this child [Jesus] is set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed.

Peace requires arrangements by which other people can prosper. It is our duty to contribute of our capital and our skill to that prosperity.

On the other hand, if you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

Skepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely.

But, as a fact, men have almost always suffered under new tyrannies . . . that had been public liberties hardly twenty years before.

Artists must be contending with something they do not understand, or they are not artists.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Carlyle said that men were mostly fools. Christianity, with a surer and more reverent realism, says that they are all fools.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

All art is immoral.

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