Tired and Sick, But Catching Up

Posted February 7, 2009, 8:17 p.m.

Yeah, I know, I’m slacking on postings and have been doing a poor job of responding to emails, answering phones, and so on. Sorry about that. I finally got much of my to-do list conquered by Thursday evening, right around the same time I started to feel a bit off. I woke up Friday with a pretty bad cold, complete with congestion, sore throat, and general badness. I’ve been consuming plenty of vitamin C and drinking plenty of fluids and getting plenty of sleep (with the help of Nyquil D), so hopefully it’ll pass soon.

I still have quite a few to-dos to finish, and I’m still working on them, but things have basically settled back to a normal level of chaos. I’m going to try and get back into a habit of regular posting, but please be patient with me ;-).

You would think that with the immense technological power we have as a society—billions of computers that all are interconnected to one another—they’d have figured out some way to kill a common cold.

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

Ideas are cheap. It’s only what you do with them that counts.

But it is as foolish to reject the senses because they sometimes seem to deceive us as it is to reject mathematics because we sometimes make mistakes in our checkbooks.

Not even the most powerful propaganda machine in the world can change truth.

Take heed to yourselves; if your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him; and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, and says, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.

I don’t drink liquor. I don’t like it. It makes me feel good.

The basic requirement for the understanding of the politics of change is to recognize the world as it is. We must work with it on its terms if we are to change it to the kind of world we would like it to be.

Literalism is simply not an effective way to extract meaning from the Bible.

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

It is the American example that deserves the most credit for the global spread of democratic politics and free-market economies. In this sense, too, the world of today is a world that we invented.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

It’s the duty of everyone to defend religious freedom and promote it for all people.

It has been said it makes no difference what you believe; it all depends on how you act. This is psychological nonsense, for a man acts out of his beliefs.

Despite the constant negative press covfefe

Natural selection does not positively produce anything. It only eliminates, or tends to eliminate, whatever is not competitive.

Behold, I am coming soon, bringing my recompense, to repay every one for what he has done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.

I’d have no desire to penalize a man because he’s worth only fifteen dollars a week. But I’ll be damned if I can see why a man worth forty must be penalized—and penalized in favor of the one who’s less competent.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Let the wise man guard his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, very artful, and they rush wherever they list: thoughts well guarded bring happiness.

In that moment, Aaron discovered confidence was mostly being sick of it all and running on two hours of sleep.

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