About the Site

Updated May 29, 2022, 9:37 p.m.

Overview

This site is the online repository for all things related to Scott Bradford: fiction, opinion, news, music, and more. It was started in 1995 and is now at version 26.0 “Sarah” (26.0.26/6.0.65). Don’t forget to try and find the Easter Egg, and let me know if you do!

The site is managed using WordPress, a PHP and MySQL-based blogging and content management system, and makes use of common web standards. More information about the technologies used to make this site can be found on the Technology page.

ALLERGY WARNING: This site contains peanuts.

Additional Information

Retro Websites

Here, you can view original or replica layouts of my site and related sites from over the years. These are layout demos, so the links will not work and some dynamic functions won’t either, but they will give you an idea of how that particular version of the site looked.

Off on a Tangent

Previous versions of this site, which was known at different times as Website [X] and Intersanity.

Website 1.0 (replica)
Website 2.0 (replica)
Website 3.0 (replica)
Website 4.0 (replica)
Website 5.0 (replica)
Website 6.0
Website 7.0 (missing; likely similar to Website 8.0)
Website 8.0 (also, Antzoid)
Website 9.0
Website 10.0, 10.1, 10.2
Website 11.0
Website 12.0, 12.1
Website 13.0, 13.1 (site moved to Movable Type)
Website 14.0, 14.1, 14.2
Website 15.0
Website 16.0, 16.1 (site moved to Mambo/Joomla)
Website 17.0, 17.1, 17.2
Website 18.0, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3
Website 19.0, 19.1
Website 20.0, 20.1, 20.2 (site moved to WordPress)
Website 21.0, 21.1, 21.2
Website 22.0, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3
Website 23.0, 23.1
Website 24.0, 24.1
Website 25.0, 25.1

Other Sites

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

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

The church, a community that authoritatively teaches and disciples its members, cannot withstand a revolution in which each member becomes, in effect, his own pope.

Conversion is a matter of a moment. Sanctification is the work of a lifetime.

This is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making a prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

It was the countercultural force of Christian sexuality that overturned the pagan world’s dehumanizing practices.

It has taken since time immemorial for us to organize ourselves . . . into the functional hierarchies that both specify our perceptions and actions, and define our interactions with the natural and social world. Profound gratitude for that gift is the only proper response.

The universe is not the result of chance, as some would want to make us believe. Contemplating it, we are invited to read something profound into it: the wisdom of the creator, the inexhaustible creativity of God.

The one certain way to invite disaster is to be opulent, offensive, and unarmed.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Nearly all that a boy reads [in the papers] in his teens will be known before he is twenty to have been false in emphasis and interpretation, if not in fact as well, and most of it will have lost all importance.

Spread love everywhere you go. . . . Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

You might think a topic is too complicated to master for your use, but you might learn otherwise in less than a minute if you bother to check.

Such is the nature of the understanding, that it cannot be compelled to the belief of anything by outward force. Confiscation of estate, imprisonment, torments, nothing of that nature can have any such efficacy as to make men change the inward judgment that they have framed of things.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

I know that there is nothing better for [men] than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live; also that it is God’s gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.

The West did not get rich because of slavery or imperialism or because of a neocolonialism that supposedly siphons off the riches of Third World countries. It is successful because of its culture, rooted in the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian heritage, because of the distinctive institutions that developed over centuries, because of the freedom granted to individuals.

If all values are only subjective, so is the value of tolerance.

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.