Minor Site Update: Website 25.1

Posted August 26, 2017, 4:53 p.m.

I have just launched a minor update to Off on a Tangent, which brings the version to 25.1. Minor updates like this are where I launch noticeable (but relatively small) changes to the style and functionality of the site.

This one is fairly minor, even as ‘minor updates’ go. I have made a number of small improvements throughout the site, including some cleanup to the header and menu, improvements to the general user experience on mobile devices, and a new ‘back to top’ button that will jump you to the top of the page. I’ve also improved the ‘featured image’ display on articles that have them and improved code validity and compliance with accessibility standards.

Enjoy!

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

He is no fool that gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

But once you find the truth, you ought to be prepared to stand on the street corner and use all your gifts to right the wrong.

Nothing subsisting is greater than the rational soul, except God.

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

God wishes to charge you with a mission. You will be contradicted, but do not fear; you will have the grace to do what is necessary.

Nature doesn’t seem to care whether we are smart. In terms of our survival as a species, it only matters that some people, in some places, get things right some of the time.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

If every man had faith, we would need no more laws. . . .

When children come to school knowing that their parents have high expectations, it makes everything a teacher is trying to do easier and more effective. Self-esteem is important, but it is not an entitlement. It has to be earned.

But not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone at the bottom wishes to rise, although many do, and many manage it.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.

Function often follows form. Give yourself a context for capturing thoughts, and thoughts will occur that you don’t yet know you have.

If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

We are very shy of asking questions of those who know enough to destroy with one word the hopes we live on.

Millennia passed before humankind discovered that energy is the basis of matter. It may take a few more years before we prove that wisdom and knowledge are the basis of, and can actually create, energy which in turn creates matter.

He who says ‘I know him’ but disobeys his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Since exact science derives its exactness from measurements, the application of quantities, it is limited to matter; and since science is limited to matter, it has no philosophical or religious implications whatsoever.

Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?

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