Website 21.2 In Development

Posted June 19, 2010, 11:37 p.m.

I’ve started some preliminary work on a minor update to the site which, when done, will bring the version to 21.2. Believe it or not, it’s been six months since the last minor update and over a year since the last top-to-bottom redesign. I’m still pretty happy with it, but—as happens every-so-often with me—I’m starting to feel like I ought to update it just for the sake of updating it. I also want to try out some cool new jQuery and WordPress tricks I’ve been learning.

So far, my experimental development version has . . . nothing all that great, at least from the reader’s perspective. I’ve added support for the new menu system in WordPress 3.0, which will make it easier for me to make changes to the menus when I need to (and make sure the Site Map and menu are always in sync). I’ve also hacked around on WP-Super-Cache so I can enable WordPress caching on my theme without screwing up the desktop vs. mobile versions, which will speed things up a bit for everybody when it goes live.

Other than that, I don’t really have much planned yet . . . so if you have any requests, now is the time. What do you love about the site? What do you hate about it? Let me know.

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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Coexistence [with communism] is a contradiction of terms because it means trying to coexist with world conquest, which is impossible. One must resist or be conquered.

When you run across dedicated Socialists, remember that the only difference between a Socialist and a Communist is in the method of takeover. The desire to seize monolithic control of society is the same in both.

Jesus’s acts of compassion and his call for others to do likewise were never to be done by compulsion, but voluntarily, by free-will choice.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult: to begin a war, and to end it.

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

Justice is the constitution or fundamental law of the moral universe, the law of right, a rule of conduct for man in all his moral relations.

Beware speaking ill, for taking back words is burdensome.

Do whatever [Jesus] tells you.

The middle of the road is where the white line is—and that’s the worst place to drive.

Most laypersons are unaware that according to the classical laws of relativity and cosmology, there should be no solid matter in the entire universe. We and the Earth on which we rest and every star and galaxy in the universe are the result of an unlikely quirk of nature.

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.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it’s stored than to anything on which it’s poured.

Money is the best counterfeit money.

Science has as many competing styles as painting or poetry.

In recent years a false compassion has developed among some who hold that suffering is incompatible with human dignity. Clearly this is at odds with the Christian faith, which sees in suffering a redemptive and transformative dimension.

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.