“So Addictive Dessert Internet Lounge”

Posted May 2, 2008, 6:05 p.m.

As seen in the town of Herndon, Virginia, this afternoon, behold the “So Addictive Dessert Internet Lounge”. It can’t be made out in this photo (the red light only allowed so much time to snap photos), but the banner to the right explains that this lounge offers a wide variety of sweet desserts and . . . well . . . Internet access.

I can’t help thinking, nitpicker that I am, that the name of this establishment could use some punctuation and a conjunction. How about this: “So Addictive: The Dessert and Internet Lounge”. See how much clearer that becomes? I wouldn’t want people to think that the Internet was the “So Addictive Dessert”; people with more prurient minds than mine might get the wrong idea!

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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We wish to pursue the truth no matter where it leads. But to find the truth, we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact.

There are people in government who don’t want other people to know what they know. It’s just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I’ll show you a loser.

True politeness is a polish, not a varnish; and should rather be acquired by observation than admonition.

Every truth—if it really is truth—presents itself as universal, even if it is not the whole truth. If something is true, then it must be true for all people and at all times.

Whenever an angel says ‘Be not afraid!’ you’d better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.

God give us courage to protect the unborn child, for the child is the greatest gift of God to a family, to a nation and to the whole world.

If kings and peoples had only had their true interests in view ever since the beginning of the world, the name of war would scarcely be known among mankind.

My nomination for the most loserthinkish advice in history is: ‘Stay in your lane.’ That is the sort of advice that is better served to an enemy, not a friend.

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

Only theology has as its essential subject matter the infinite, the transcendent, and the eternal. The subject might exhaust our inner resources, but we can never exhaust its inner riches.

Countries don’t compete directly with one another in economic terms. When Singapore or China gets richer, America does not become poorer.

Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act.

We have certain standards of life that we believe are best for us. We do not ask other nations to discard theirs, but we do wish to preserve ours.

Progressivism will hollow out your religion and wear its skin like a trophy.

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific, and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, fierce, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people.

The one certain way to invite disaster is to be opulent, offensive, and unarmed.

My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

Ice deserves no credit for being cold, nor fire for being hot; it is only those who have the possibility of choice that can be praised for their acts.

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