Caution: Hot Surface

Posted August 17, 2008, 9:33 p.m.

So, Melissa wanted to do some ‘Restaurant Week’ thing where you go to fancy, expensive restaurants and pay slightly-less fancy, slightly-less expensive prices. We went to the Melting Pot this evening, which is a fondue chain with a location right down the road in Reston.

It was pretty good, for fondue. Personally I love fondue as a home dish, but I’m not sure I get the point of paying to cook your own food. It was a nice evening out though, and I have to admit it was very good, fancy fondue.

We also got warned about 50 times total not to touch the clearly-labeled hot surface in the middle of the table. Funny, the printed warning, red light, and common sense didn’t give it away. Got to love living in a litigious society. There were no warnings printed on the other hot object at the table, pictured.

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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Besides, it is a truth confirmed by the unerring experience of ages, that every man, and every body of men, invested with power, are ever disposed to increase it, and to acquire a superiority over everything that stands in their way.

What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

There are three fundamental states of social being: tyranny (you do what I want), slavery (I do what you want), or negotiation.

If you ‘don’t get anything out of church,’ you don’t understand the reason for going to church in the first place. We go to church to worship. Worship is not like entertainment: worship is not getting something but giving something.

The more laws and restrictions there are, the poorer people become.

One of the grand fallacies of our time is that something beneficial should be subsidized.

Holiness is not a luxury of the few, it is a simple duty for each one of us. . . .

If Catholicism predisposes the faithful to obedience, it certainly does not prepare them for inequality; but the contrary may be said of Protestantism, which generally tends to make men independent, more than to render them equal.

Of all the symptoms of decay in our decadent civilization, subjectivism is the most disastrous of all. A mistake can possibly be discovered and amended if and only if truth exists and can be known and is loved and searched for.

I’m nauseatingly pro-American. It is where great things are possible.

Are we so much better than the people of other ages and of other countries, that the same allurements of power and greatness, which led them aside from their duty, will have no influence upon men in our country?

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

And the simple step of a simple courageous man is not to partake in falsehood, not to support false actions.

Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody.

[Groos] well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely. . . .

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.

If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.

If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority of the majority, which may at some future time urge the minorities to desperation, and oblige them to have recourse to physical force.

In the end there persists in every man, however he may deny it, a scrap of soul.

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