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	<title>Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent &#187; Life</title>
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	<description>Scott Bradford has been building web sites and using them to say what he thinks since 1995, which tended to get him in trouble with power-tripping assistant principals at the time. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University, but has spent most of his career (so far) working on public- and private-sector web sites. He is not a member of any political party, and brands himself an ‘independent constitutional conservative.’ In addition to holding down a day job and blogging about challenging subjects like politics, religion, and technology, Scott is also a devout Catholic, gun-owner, bike rider, and music lover with a wife and two cats.</description>
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		<title>Myrtle Beach Vacation Photos</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2012/01/06/myrtle-beach-vacation-photos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 04:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Been busy since we got back from our Myrtle Beach vacation. We had a great time, got to hang out with some of my family, ate way too much food, played mini-golf, went to the aquarium, and more. I didn&#8217;t spend a lot of time taking pictures, but I did grab some on the beach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Out and Vote! I Did!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the media continues to drone on and on about next November&#8217;s presidential election, the actual civic life of the country is focused elsewhere today. Here in Virginia, we are voting for who will represent us in the Virginia General Assembly and in our local city and county governments. Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Jersey will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My &#8216;Class M&#8217; License</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in June I took a three-day Apex Cycle Education Basic RiderCourse to learn to ride a motorcycle. I figured that it would be a fun and interesting way to spend a weekend, if nothing else. It most-certainly was. The course was an evening classroom session, followed by two afternoons on ~250cc trainer bikes (a Honda [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Endorsement Statistics, 2004-2010</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/09/29/endorsement-statistics-2004-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;ve spent a good hunk of my free time over the last week or two working on this year&#8217;s Off on a Tangent political endorsements, I thought it might be interesting to look back at my endorsement history and do some statistical analysis (yes, I am that nerdy). I thought it might give me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random Photos</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/09/25/random-photos-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 20:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of a bunch of serious works of time-consuming writing, here are a bunch of random photos I&#8217;ve taken over the last month or two on my phone. My favorite is the derelict hat, left sitting on a highway, that the always-impressive professionals at the Virginia Department of Transportation simply painted right over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shakey Shakey</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/08/23/shakey-shakey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 02:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, I was in a meeting this afternoon in an interior conference room at the office. It was running a bit longer that I expected, and I was beginning to worry that it would run over into my next meeting. The next meeting was at 2pm, and it was past 1:50 already. I don&#8217;t remember [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meet Intrepid: The New Notebook</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/08/13/meet-intrepid-the-new-notebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 07:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in March I built Excelsior, my first home-built PC. It has been serving me wonderfully and I have no serious complaints. It did run a little hot since I&#8217;m always pegging the processor at 100% with my Boinc projects, so I added an aftermarket cooler and an extra couple of fans after the initial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Letter to Cigna Healthcare</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/07/09/another-letter-to-cigna-healthcare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may recall a letter I wrote to Cigna Healthcare last May regarding an idiotic &#8216;preexisting condition questionnaire&#8217; they sent to Melissa. It was idiotic because Melissa had been a Cigna customer for years without interruption. Insurance companies can only hold preexisting conditions against you if you have had a break in medical insurance coverage; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anniversary/Memorial Day Weekend</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/05/30/anniversary-memorial-day-weekend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 02:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Melissa and I got out of town for the weekend, which was our sixth anniversary (on Saturday) and the Memorial Day holiday. We headed out to Calvert County and St. Mary&#8217;s County, MD. On Saturday we visited Calvert Cliffs State Park, where we hiked 1.8 miles from the park entrance to the Chesapeake Bay and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Descendant of William Bradford</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2011/05/10/descendant-of-william-bradford/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 04:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a ton of research, my father has confirmed an old family legend: we are descended from William Bradford, the long-time governor of the Plymouth colony. Bradford was one of the many Puritan Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower to escape religious persecution in England. He is credited as the first civil authority to [...]]]></description>
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