Technical Difficulties (Resolved)

Posted August 21, 2007, 7:05 p.m.

You may have noticed some problems with the site today, which have been caused by infrastructure changes at my hosting provider. The problems manifest themselves when I have ‘friendly URLs’ turned on, so for the moment I have turned them off. This means that links to specific pieces of content are temporarily different (and uglier) than usual. I am working to fix this and will post updates (probably won’t have time to work on it for a day or two).

Update: I have reactivate the ‘friendly URLs’ as the problem appears to be resolved. I’ll keep an eye on it.

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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The organizer knows that it is a human characteristic that someone who asks for help and gets it reacts not only with gratitude but with a subconscious hostility toward the one who helped him.

My son, do not lead the life of a beggar; it is better to die than to beg. When a man looks to the table of another, his existence cannot be considered as life.

Law is order, and good law is good order.

Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity.

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

Today, cultural relativism in the West discourages cross-cultural judgments, thus impeding the reform of injustices around the world and inhibiting the defense of Western civilization.

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you’ll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

In despotic States men know not how to act, because they are told nothing; in democratic nations they often act at random, because nothing is to be left untold.

Bright people have the capability of freaking out faster and more dramatically than anyone else.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

[The] confederated national government . . . should be one which would have a control over national and external matters only, and not interfere with the internal regulations and police of the different states in the union.

Evil can be eradicated from the world at large only when it is eradicated from the hearts and lives of individual human beings. Only when there is virtue in souls can there be peace and happiness in society.

The Constitution was designed to keep government off the backs of the people.

‘Power comes out of the barrel of a gun!’ is an absurd rallying cry when the other side has all the guns.

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.

We need to safeguard property rights, pay our debts, and fulfill obligations freely incurred.

Like Judaism, but unlike most other religions, Christianity is not mythical, in that it is based on events that took place not in a timeless realm but within human history itself.

Therefore do not seek to understand in order to believe, but believe that thou mayest understand.

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