April Fools Site: I Can Has Tangent

Posted April 1, 2013, 12:02 a.m.

On April Fools Day 2013, Off on a Tangent was re-branded as the cat-oriented I Can Has Tangent. It was based off the well-known I Can Has Cheezburger site and memes, but featuring our own cats, Mei Mei and Vincent.

Click to see how it looked, or read on to see the series of photos I posted.

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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The opinions of the supreme court, whatever they may be, will have the force of law; because there is no power provided in the constitution that can correct their errors, or control their adjudications.

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law.

All members of the human family [must] be respected and protected irrespective not only of race, sex, and ethnicity but also of age, size, location, stage of development, and condition of dependency. To exclude anyone from the law’s protection is to treat him unjustly.

We are the only spirits that have bodies and the only animals that have spiritual souls. We are the lowest and stupidest angel and the highest and smartest animal, or rather, we are neither; we are ourselves.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

A statesman is a politician who’s been dead for ten or fifteen years.

The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

The nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year.

It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.

We should bear in mind that, in general, it is the object of our newspapers rather to create a sensation—to make a point—than to further the cause of truth. The latter end is only pursued when it seems coincident with the former.

God is said to rejoice more over the penitent than over the innocent, because often penitents rise from sin more cautious, humble, and fervent.

We shall see hereafter that in America the real strength of the country is vested in the provincial far more than in the federal government.

They who imagine truth in untruth, and see untruth in truth, never arrive at truth, but follow vain desires. They who know truth in truth, and untruth in untruth, arrive at truth, and follow true desires.

We’re all putting on an act and hoping the audience buys it.

Nobody really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.

In that moment, Aaron discovered confidence was mostly being sick of it all and running on two hours of sleep.

Truth stood on one side and ease on the other; it has often been so.

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

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