Photos from Election Central

Posted November 9, 2010, 12:39 a.m.

Having a really busy week and haven’t had time to do much writing. Sorry guys. I have a lot of backlogged to-dos to get out of the way and some other commitments. Anyway, in case you were wondering how I covered the election last week, here are three photos from before returns started coming in. This is pretty much my normal office setup, except the TV usually isn’t on ;-).

The real workhorse of the night: My old TI-82 calculator. I got it in 9th grade and it still does the real hard-core heavy lifting when I need to project a race’s outcome from raw returns. I still haven’t found anything that lets me plow through the numbers faster.

My basic setup was broad news coverage on the left (TV tuned to CNN and various news sites on the first computer screen), my site’s live results in the middle, and returns and some media projections on the right.

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

And it is a fact that books which fall short of greatness sometimes have a power to move us greatly, especially in childhood when we are least critical and most forgiving, for their very failures confess their humanity.

The fool who knows his foolishness, is wise at least so far. But a fool who thinks himself wise, he is called a fool indeed.

If any one refuses to obey what we say in this letter, note that man, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed. Do not look on him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

But if we successfully reduce gun murders without reducing the overall murder rate, that’s not really success. The murder victim doesn’t care whether he was killed with a gun, knife, hammer, car, poison, anvil, or blow-dart. Neither should we.

In all that follows I adopt the standpoint, therefore, that the inclination to aggression is an original, self-subsisting instinctual disposition in man, and I return to my view that it constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security.

The pure, clean water of spiritual truth is placed in rusty containers, and the subsequent failings of the church down through the centuries should not be projected onto the faith itself, as if the water had been the problem.

A hammer is good only if you stop pounding after the nail is all the way in. Keep pounding and you break the wood.

Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed.

Throughout the history of anti-trust prosecutions, there has been an unresolved confusion between what is detrimental to competition and what is detrimental to competitors.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

The common good, therefore, is the end of civil government, and common consent, the foundation on which it is established.

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

Universal evidence unmistakably shows that the best results are always obtained in healthful commercial competition.

Despite the constant negative press covfefe

The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.

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