April Fools Site: Man in the Mirror

Posted April 1, 2005, 4:04 p.m.

On April Fools Day 2005, my site appeared in reverse with this explanation:

Beginning today, the first day of April, Off on a Tangent will be presented as a mirror image to express solidarity with the man-in-the-mirror himself (and reincarnated Lipizzan horse), Michael Jackson.

Peace, my white brother.

Click to enter the 2005 April Fools reversed site.

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.

Quotes

The worst tempered people I’ve ever met were people who knew they were wrong.

Wilson Mizner

Therefore the wise know themselves but make no show, have self-respect but are not arrogant.

Lao Tsu

If people have always said it, it is probably true. . . . If people have not always said it, but [are] saying it now, it is probably a lie. . . .

Anthony Esolen

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

Martin Luther King Jr.

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

Steve Jobs

There are only two kinds of foreign countries—those that require shots and those that don’t.

Thomas Sowell

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

Horace

Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right.

Theodore Parker

You cannot save people, you can only love them.

Anaïs Nin

Those who call black black, and white white, are sentenced for intolerance. Only the grays live.

Fulton Sheen

Don’t let your life be sterile. Be useful. Blaze a trail. Shine forth with the light of your faith and of your love.

Josemaría Escrivá

Normally, thought precedes word; it seeks and formulates the word. But praying the Psalms and liturgical prayer in general is exactly the other way round: The word, the voice, goes ahead of us, and our mind must adapt to it.

Benedict XVI

But love, in the Christian sense, . . . is a state not of the feelings but of the will . . . which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

C.S. Lewis

Faith and reason are indeed interdependent. One of the great secrets of the universe is that reason leans on faith every bit as much as faith leans on reason.

Scott Hahn

[Einstein] said, in effect, that everything should be as simple as it can be but not simpler!

Roger Sessions

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan

Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes, disrespects sacred cows or other such entities.

Salman Rushdie

You cannot eliminate religion from the psyche of mankind. If you suppress it in one form, it merely re-emerges in another form.

Michael Crichton

I’ve destroyed my passions, rather like a violent man who, finding he can’t control his horse, kills it.

Nicolas Chamfort

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