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 is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Horace

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

Harry S. Truman

An unjust law is no law at all.

Augustine of Hippo

The purpose of the First Amendment’s religion clause was not to protect the state (or the people) from religion, but to protect religion from the state. . . .

Scott Bradford

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Hannah Arendt

An authentic faith—which is never comfortable or completely personal—always involves a deep desire to change the world, to transmit values, to leave this earth somehow better than we found it.

Francis (Pope)

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue. . . .

George Mason

[A conservative is] a statesman enamored of existing evils, as opposed to a liberal, who wants to replace them with others.

Ambrose Bierce

Life is . . . a trap for logicians. It looks just a little more mathematical and regular than it is; its exactitude is obvious, but its inexactitude is hidden; its wildness lies in wait.

G.K. Chesterton

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting that we have just had one.

Mignon McLaughlin

The French codes are often difficult of comprehension, but they can be read by every one; nothing, on the other hand, can be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It’s all well and good to say that reality exists only in one’s mind, but those who believe it should still look both ways before crossing the street.

Scott Hahn

Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

George Mason

The government’s power to censor the press was abolished so that the press would remain forever free to censure the government.

Hugo Black

I do not envy people who think they have a complete explanation of the world, for the simple reason that they are obviously wrong.

Salman Rushdie

I have come as light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.

Jesus Christ

Political freedom . . . is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible.

Whittaker Chambers

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they’d never expect it.

Jack Handey

Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.

Siddhartha Gautama

To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it.

Charles Spurgeon

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