Announcing Website 18

Posted May 31, 2006, 6:55 p.m.

I’m pleased to announce the launch of Website 18, the eighteenth version of my personal website. This is almost exclusively a look-and-feel change from the previous version. I had a number of technological/usability improvements planned, but I will be implementing those along with a major CMS upgrade later this year (this will save me the double-effort of implementing new things now, then having to re-implement them for the new CMS version).

Regardless, I think the new look is a definite step up from the previous style, and I hope you agree. Please leave me some comments and let me know what you think!

In addition, there have been some changes to the supported browsers. There are some additions, removals, and version adjustments. If you’re using an unsupported browser, I recommend you upgrade to something on the list (there’s a wide variety available).

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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One reason inflation is so destructive is because some people benefit greatly while other people suffer; society is divided into winners and losers.

[A conservative is] a statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a liberal, who wants to replace them with others.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil, in its worst state an intolerable one. . . .

Anyone who still needs to think about techniques on the battlefield will die.

In the first element God is beyond time, as the eternal Idea, existing in the element of eternity. . . .

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few

Genuine authority constrains the arbitrary exercise of power. This constraint manifests itself when the authoritative agent cares, and takes responsibility, for those over whom the exertion of power is possible.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying but they keep lying anyway, and we keep pretending to believe them.

I observed . . . that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And . . . the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

[Without a free press] the nation ceases to be mindful of itself . . . and . . . compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Such is the nature of the understanding, that it cannot be compelled to the belief of anything by outward force. Confiscation of estate, imprisonment, torments, nothing of that nature can have any such efficacy as to make men change the inward judgment that they have framed of things.

Wine is like life to men, if you drink it in moderation. What is life to a man who is without wine? It has been created to make men glad.

Follow the law of virtue; do not follow that of sin. The virtuous rest in bliss in this world and in the next.

Freedom comes from being moral. Slavery to sin arises from being immoral.

No one hates Buddha; he is dead. But hatred against [Christ] would live on, because he lives. . . .

I made a misstatement and I stand by all my misstatements.

As an ancient axiom states, the Church makes the Eucharist, and the Eucharist makes the Church.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

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