I Am Not a Cat Bed

Posted May 11, 2008, 10:24 p.m.

I came down with a pretty bad cold (like usual, on a weekend) that had me laid-up most of yesterday. Luckily I’m feeling better today.

After getting Melissa situated at her art show yesterday, I watched some BBC America and then dozed off on the couch. I woke up to the feeling of paw-steps on my side. Apparently, Mei Mei thought I would make a good place to curl up for an afternoon nap.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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As a general rule, it’s always smarter to criticize people who aren’t around.

If all mankind needed was a teacher, man would long ago have been holy, for he has had teachers from the Indian sages up to this very hour.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

A methodology that can scarcely do other than confirm the hypothesis that it was designed to test is not valid social science.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Searches are only permissible with explicit consent or probable cause. There is no such thing as implied consent.

All economic transactions involve mutual accommodation and each transactor has to make the deal a net benefit to the other transactor, in order to have a deal at all.

American young people have got to understand from an early age that the world pays off on results, not on effort. Not everyone should win a prize no matter where he or she finishes.

Once I conquer Finland, I’ll head south through the Baltics and on to Belarus. Soon, all the world will find me mildly amusing.

But you can be certain, you want-to-be tyrants, that your slaves will take their revenge where they can, even if that means merely being much less than they could be.

Not to be deceived in matters of faith, we must always distinguish very carefully between the abuses to which a devotion may lead and the truths upon which the devotion rests.

Some acts are always wrong—that is, intrinsically evil—and may never be done, no matter what the intention or the circumstances.

Everybody has plans until they get hit for the first time.

I know that there is nothing better for [men] than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; also that it is God’s gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.

Trying to manage from the top down, when the bottom is out of control, may be the least effective approach.

In a free market, the money of ordinary people is just as good as the money of the rich—and in the aggregate, there is often more of it.

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

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