“So Addictive Dessert Internet Lounge”

Posted May 2, 2008, 6:05 p.m.

As seen in the town of Herndon, Virginia, this afternoon, behold the “So Addictive Dessert Internet Lounge”. It can’t be made out in this photo (the red light only allowed so much time to snap photos), but the banner to the right explains that this lounge offers a wide variety of sweet desserts and . . . well . . . Internet access.

I can’t help thinking, nitpicker that I am, that the name of this establishment could use some punctuation and a conjunction. How about this: “So Addictive: The Dessert and Internet Lounge”. See how much clearer that becomes? I wouldn’t want people to think that the Internet was the “So Addictive Dessert”; people with more prurient minds than mine might get the wrong idea!

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 tragedy in all of this is the simple fact that the average tax-paying American was not given an honest and genuine choice. The voter finds himself enduring one party long enough to witness a whole series of travesties and then switches to the other party thinking he will get a substantial reversal of policy. But he doesn’t.

W. Cleon Skousen

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

Salvador Dalí

[The] truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

Winston Churchill

If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority of the majority, which may at some future time urge the minorities to desperation, and oblige them to have recourse to physical force.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Everything stands or falls with the act of speaking out.

Mattias Desmet

Earnest among the thoughtless, awake among the sleepers, the wise man advances like a racer, leaving behind the hack.

Siddhartha Gautama

We keep on turning [the kaleidoscope of ideas] and making new combinations . . . ; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

Mark Twain

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Fulton Sheen

A man’s rights rest in three boxes: The ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

Frederick Douglass

Liberty therefore can only subsist, where the powers of government are properly divided, and where the different jurisdictions are inviolably kept distinct and separate.

Anonymous

There are no internal affairs left on our crowded Earth! . . . Mankind’s sole salvation lies in everyone making everything his business.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There are many hypotheses in science that are wrong. That’s perfectly alright; it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

Carl Sagan

Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men.

H.L. Mencken

Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts . . . , for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.

Hannah Arendt

The steam engine, the multiple press, and the public school, that trio of the industrial revolution, have taken the power away from kings and given it to the people.

Edward Bernays

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

John Henry Newman

Psychological knowledge has made us dull.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

In every man’s writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

Thomas Carlyle

The rhetoric about ‘progressive’ and ‘regressive’ hardly deserves comment. Those who tell truth by the clock or the calendar are practicing chronological snobbery.

Peter Kreeft

If you do not object when the transgressions against your conscience are minor, why presume that you will not willfully participate when the transgressions get truly out of hand?

Jordan Peterson

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