Joke Website: WebGMUC

Posted March 10, 2004, 4:02 p.m.

Spun off from the George Mason University, Corp. parody, this is a parody of the GMU student information system called WebGMU. You’re more likely to get useful information out of mine than you are during the real one during class-selection time, final-exam time, or when tuition is due. Made in 2004.

WebGMUC.

‘Joke Website: WebGMUC’ is a parody of the George Mason University WebGMU web site as it appeared in 2004, and is thus protected under the fair-use provisions of copyright law. GMU claims a copyright on the original work, however as a state institution its copyright is unenforceable (if even legal in the first place).

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 moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed . . .

Hannah Arendt

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.

Mignon McLaughlin

Economic planning on a national scale in a politically free society involves contradictions that cannot be resolved in practice.

Jim Powell

If you buy the story that everything terrible just happened on its own, with no personal responsibility on the part of the victim, you deny that person all agency. . . . In this manner, you strip him or her of all power.

Jordan Peterson

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

C.S. Lewis

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Jesus Christ

In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; you are dust, and to dust you shall return.

Holy Bible

We don’t want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

Dan Quayle

By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.

Paul Krugman

An unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The safeguard of morality is religion, and morality is the best security of law and the surest pledge of freedom.

Alexis de Tocqueville

And as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born.

Edgar Allan Poe

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.

Alexis de Tocqueville

For all things in the world, though now united, tend to separation.

Siddhartha Gautama

There are only two kinds of people who go into bankruptcy—those who don’t know how to handle money and those who know all too well.

Thomas Sowell

Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence was effective with the British precisely because they were not inclined to use excessive force against unarmed civilians. . . . Would Gandhi’s tactics have worked with the Nazis?

Ibn Warraq

Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice. . . .

Alexander Hamilton

Tyranny is . . . not good for the tyrant—because he or she becomes a tyrant, and there is nothing ennobling about that.

Jordan Peterson

All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

G.K. Chesterton

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