I Voted; Make Sure You Do Too!

Posted November 6, 2012, 12:36 p.m.

I voted this morning at my local polling place in South Riding, Virginia. The lines were long, but not overwhelming. Turnout seems to be high, as expected. I expect the lines will grow longer as the day progresses, especially near the end of the day. The Virginia polls close at 7:00 p.m., and anybody in line at that time will be permitted to cast their ballot.

All eligible voters should head to the polls today (if they did not take advantage of early voting). Research the candidates and issues, make your decision, and be counted. We are very blessed to live in a country where we have the right to shape our government.

Be sure to come back to Off on a Tangent this evening as the results come in.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

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‘After Auschwitz,’ said Theodor Adorno, student of authoritarianism, ‘there should be no poetry.’ He was wrong. But the poetry should be about Auschwitz.

The last two thousand million years are slow evolution: they are the smoke and ashes of bright but very rapid fireworks.

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Straightforward preaching spoils the effectiveness of a story. If you can’t resist the impulse to improve your fellow human beings, do it subtly.

A culture that engendered the spiritual creations of Mozart and Beethoven, Wagner and Schubert, of Raphael and Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt does not need lessons in spirituality from societies whose vision of heaven resembles a cosmic brothel stocked with virgins for men’s pleasure.

Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable?

There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

My dear, when people show you who they are, why don’t you believe them?

I had much rather be a real President for three years and a half than a figurehead for seven years and a half.

Public opinion was made or changed formerly by tribal chiefs, by kings, by religious leaders. Today the privilege of attempting to sway public opinion is everyone’s.

The universe itself is a great autograph of the Almighty.

The preservation of civilization and culture is now one with the preservation of religion. If the anti-God forces of the world conquer, culture and civilization will disappear, and we will have to start all over again.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Look at my African American over here!

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom . . . [then] crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

Christian perfection has but one limit, that of having none.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Nature doesn’t seem to care whether we are smart. In terms of our survival as a species, it only matters that some people, in some places, get things right some of the time.

You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don’t already believe it.

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