Beware the Bloggers’ Bile

Posted June 8, 2007, 1:01 p.m.

Joe Klein is not a Republican. He is not a friend of the Bush Administration. In fact, I’ll go out on a limb here: He’s a liberal, and he’s almost definitely a Democrat. But in today’s political climate these facts do not matter, nor do similar facts about others on either side of the political spectrum. If you think, if you analyze, or if—God forbid—you disagree with one party or the other on a few issues, you will find yourself on the receiving end of incredible hatred even from your own ideological brethren. As Klein says in his Time Magazine piece, “the smart stuff is being drowned out by a fierce, bullying, often witless tone of intolerance that has overtaken the left-wing sector of the blogosphere.”

Beware the Bloggers’ Bile (Time Magazine).

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.

Quotes

At times [a man] is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name doesn’t change, and to that name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil.

But if the Supreme Court is ever composed of imprudent men or bad citizens, the Union may be plunged into anarchy or civil war.

Yet ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, ‘God is hard to find.’

And fortunately, being an American, I don’t have to whimper, I don’t have to whine, I have the right to protest, and I like that.

In any case, God commands us to have courage; he does not command us to be fools.

You make a thing voluntary and then half the people do not do it. That is not what you willed, but your will has made it possible.

Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.

Falsehood can hold out against much in this world, but not against art.

I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Never dream of forcing men into the ways of God. Think yourself, and let think.

We have to view technology as what it always has been—a tool for the betterment of the human condition. We should neither worship at the altar of technology nor be frightened by it.

Everybody calls me Mr. President. It’s true. It’s a funny thing.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

We tend to think that humans distinguish themselves from animals by greater knowledge and awareness, but the most typical difference is that, unlike animals, we are almost constantly tormented by a lack of knowledge.

By attempting to measure the unmeasurable, measurement becomes a form of pseudo-objectivity. Instead of bringing the researcher closer to his research object, the measurement procedure leads him further away.

Mind your till, and till your mind.

He who says ‘I know him’ but disobeys his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

There’s no device known to mankind that will prevent people from being idiots.

The chief effect of modern ‘sex education’ is ignorance: ignorance of the single most obvious and important fact about sex, so that babies are now seen as ‘accidents.’

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