We’re Home; Regular Posting to Resume

Posted June 13, 2005, 8:16 p.m.

Melissa and I made it safely home very early this morning after spending about 10 hours in stuffy airplanes. The honeymoon was wonderful; details are in the wedding blog (though Melissa is going to write about our time in Anchorage and hasn’t gotten to it yet ;-)).

I had to work a few hours today (from home) and will be resuming my normal work schedule tomorrow. You can also expect my normal posting pattern to resume here on Off on a Tangent after I’ve recovered from the long flights and time changes (although my posting pattern was really never that predictable to begin with).

In the mean time, it’s time for dinner (and to find out if Michael Jackson is finally going to get locked up). Later, all!

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

Our inner consciences scream with neuroses and psychoses, too, when we do not freely tend to the supreme goal for which we are made, namely, the life and truth and love that are God.

Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.

Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

So long as we have lots of warning, humans are astonishingly clever at solving problems, even enormous ones. So figure that into your predictions.

If you are genuinely trying to understand the world, please avoid judging entire groups by their worst members.

It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.

The totalitarian states can do great things, but . . . they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle hanging on the wall of the working class flat or laborer’s cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.

Look at my African American over here!

Names are not arbitrary labels. Names are meanings. We grow into our names, or we fail to grow into them; we live out our names, or we fail to live them out.

In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. It is our part, by religion and reason joined, to counteract them all we can.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Perhaps everything has external and internal aspects. The external properties are those that science can capture and describe—through interactions, in terms of relationships. The internal aspect is the intrinsic essence; it is the reality that is not expressible in the language of interactions and relations.

If you are wise, mingle these two elements: do not hope without despair, or despair without hope.

‘Chance’ is nothing but an expression of human ignorance. We don’t know the reasons and causes and design of all things, because we are not God.

We often hear that love, happiness, or personal contentment constitute the means of a good marriage and reasons to redefine marriage, but these things are the fruits of marriage, not the nature of marriage.

You can miss the target by shooting too high as well as too low.

[Man] can survive in only one of two ways—by the independent work of his own mind or as a parasite fed by the minds of others. The creator originates. The parasite borrows.

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