End of Tackiness Alert

Posted November 24, 2006, 1:26 p.m.

Today, November 24, is the day after Thanksgiving. Thus, it is no longer tacky to put up your Christmas decorations. Have at it! If you made the mistake of putting up your decorations early, you may compensate by taking them down an equal number of days before New Year’s Day (the official beginning of tackiness).

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

Why, you simple creatures, the weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

Mark Twain

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Ronald Reagan

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it—so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Elbert Hubbard

A society that puts equality—in the sense of equality of outcome—ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.

Milton Friedman

You will admit that it is impossible to please God and the world. That can never be.

John Vianney

No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main enemy forces.

Moltke the Elder

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Will Rogers

Nearly all that a boy reads [in the papers] in his teens will be known before he is twenty to have been false in emphasis and interpretation, if not in fact as well. . . .

C.S. Lewis

For he will render to every man according to his works: to those . . . who are factious and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.

Paul the Apostle

Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. . . .

Jesus Christ

It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.

Carl Sagan

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That ‘all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States or to the people.’

Thomas Jefferson

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Ulysses S. Grant

Only the most cynical, hopeless philosophy insists that reality could be improved through falsification.

Jordan Peterson

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.

Hannah Arendt

Let him admonish, let him teach, let him forbid what is improper!—he will be beloved of the good, by the bad he will be hated.

Siddhartha Gautama

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

P.J. O’Rourke

And it is a smaller thing to suffer the punishment than to have deserved it.

Ovid

‘Sola scriptura’ reduces the Bible to a riddle that no one can interpret with certainty because each person can only rely on his or her fallible understanding of the sacred text.

Jimmy Seghers

Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

Jesus Christ

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