World’s Greatest [Fake] Laptop

Posted November 29, 2007, 2:55 p.m.

This is, without a doubt, the best two-dimensional fake laptop in the world (as seen at a local Staples store in Logitech’s display area). Somebody gets paid the big-bucks to build fake laptops like this, and I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

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.

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But do we not sometimes hear the thief contend that he is not guilty of sin, because he steals from the rich and the wealthy, who, in his mind, not only suffer no injury, but do not even feel the loss? Such an excuse is as wretched as it is baneful.

Look at my African American over here!

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition.

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

State power is no more to be used so as to handicap religions than it is to favor them.

You know, it doesn’t really matter what they write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.

Play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of the intellectual scale it is the eternal type of research from sheer love of truth.

Ideas are cheap. It’s only what you do with them that counts.

The ‘prudent’ have always called the works of God madness.

Exactly the same technology can be used for good and for evil. It is as if there were a God who said to us, ‘I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It’s up to you.’

As the sun shines on mud and hardens it, and shines on wax and softens it, so too this great miracle of Our Blessed Lord hardened some unto unbelief, and softened others unto belief.

Before a man are life and death, and whichever he chooses will be given to him.

According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or liberation to act on our desires—it is, rather, liberation from slavery to those desires, from slavery to self.

If you are curious, you will find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them.

Thus, the particular phraseology of the constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle . . . that a law repugnant to the constitution is void, and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.

A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both.

Winning ain’t enough. The other guy has to know he lost.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it. . . .

I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.

Regardless of our policies, practices, or institutions—whether they are wise or unwise, noble or ignoble—there is simply not enough to go around to satisfy all our desires to the fullest.

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