DC Excursion

Posted April 3, 2011, 10:11 p.m.

My sister Kristen came up to visit for the weekend. On Friday we went to Joshua Hoover’s great reception down at Carbon in Washington, DC. Then, yesterday afternoon (Saturday), we went down to Hains Point and the Tidal Basin ostensibly to see the cherry blossoms. Of course, one cherry blossom looks the same as any other as far as I’m concerned, but whatever.

It was a little chilly and it rained part of the time we were there (and even hailed a little), but then it cleared up and was a bit better. I brought my camera and took a bunch of photos. Some are of the blossoms, but, as usual, I mostly focused on other random stuff. Pictures below!

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

The spirit, if it truly stirs, never brings peace, but always brings a sword. Submission to the spirit may bring peace. But the spirit itself, aroused in man or nation, is a blade that exists to divide the truth from untruth, the living from the dead, the conformist from the Christian.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

The ancient world did in fact experience the birth of Christianity as a liberation from the fear of demons that, in spite of skepticism and enlightenment, was all-pervasive at the time.

Where the citizen is sovereign and the official the servant . . . it is important that the sovereign—the people—should possess intelligence.

Regardless of our policies, practices, or institutions—whether they are wise or unwise, noble or ignoble—there is simply not enough to go around to satisfy all our desires to the fullest.

If anybody ever says you’re ‘smart as a whip,’ remember this: whips are inanimate objects that do not possess any intelligence whatsoever.

Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.

Are you so foolish? Having begun with the Spirit, are you now ending with the flesh?

It is very easy to change a free government into an arbitrary one, but that it is very difficult to convert tyranny into freedom.

Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

They who imagine truth in untruth, and see untruth in truth, never arrive at truth, but follow vain desires. They who know truth in truth, and untruth in untruth, arrive at truth, and follow true desires.

I wish for nothing more than a good government and a constitution under which our liberties will be perfectly safe.

When you have something to say, silence is a lie—and tyranny feeds on lies.

With the return of school I’ve gotten back into my stressed-out cycle. In this cycle I go back and forth between ‘OH MY GOD I HAVE A MILLION THINGS TO DO!’ and ‘Ah, screw it.’

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.

It would be a master stroke if those great Powers honestly bent on peace would form a League of Peace, not only to keep the peace among themselves, but to prevent, by force if necessary, its being broken by others.

For the revolution is never stronger than the failure of civilization. Communism is never stronger than the failure of other faiths.

In every culture in history, the saints, who most resemble Christ, give the most offense . . . because all cultures, like all individuals, are fallen and sinful, in many different ways.

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.

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