Support Victims of Hurricane Irma

Randy Bresnik, NASA

Posted September 12, 2017, 11:08 a.m.

Much of Florida has been devastated by Hurricane Irma, the second major hurricane to make landfall in the United States this year (after a twelve year hurricane drought). The state is just beginning to repair the damage; large portions of the state are still without electric power, and some areas remain flooded.

Many people have been displaced, or have had their homes and businesses seriously damaged. If you would like to help, please consider making a donation to a reputable disaster relief charity like Catholic Charities USA or the American Red Cross. Your donation will be used to help provide for the safety and well-being of the victims of this disaster.

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

Bad speech doesn’t require censorship, it requires good speech.

Self-fertilization is a risky strategy, which is why sex is so popular among large and complex organisms.

I often wonder whether the politicians of the future, who are responsible for maintaining the prestige and effectiveness of their party, will not endeavor to train politicians who are at the same time propagandists.

Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves that necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

The transient passions and the interests of an hour, or the chance of circumstances, may have created the external forms of independence; but the despotic tendency which has been repelled will, sooner or later, inevitably reappear on the surface.

Now we are masters in respect of to act and not to act, to will and not to will.

Little men are seldom fond of quarreling among giants.

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. . . . We are dealing with fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.

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

Everybody has plans until they get hit for the first time.

Many bureaucracies have petty authoritarians within them, generating unnecessary rules and procedures simply to express and cement power.

Don’t be yourself, be someone a little nicer.

Those who are most prone to idealize the objectivity of scientists are people who know almost nothing about science, people for whom it has become a kind of religion, their hope of salvation.

My nomination for the most loserthinkish advice in history is: ‘Stay in your lane.’ That is the sort of advice that is better served to an enemy, not a friend.

Regulate the mind, and then the body will spontaneously go right.

At times [a man] is close to being a devil, at times to sainthood. But his name doesn’t change, and to that name we ascribe the whole lot, good and evil.

The ugly fact is books are made out of books. The novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.

To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

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