About the Site

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

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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” (26.0.33/6.0.77). 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.

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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.

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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

The socialists were more intrinsically capitalist than the capitalists. They believed just as strongly in money. They just thought that if different people had the money, the problems plaguing humanity would vanish. This is simply untrue.

When [civilzation] wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

See to it that no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ.

If a man foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my ungrudging love; the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves. . . .

Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

There are people in government who don’t want other people to know what they know. It’s just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I’ll show you a loser.

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

When the people rules, it must be rendered happy, or it will overturn the State, and misery is apt to stimulate it to those excesses to which ambition rouses kings.

Better a thousand times err on the side of over-readiness to fight, than to err on the side of tame submission to injury, or cold-blooded indifference to the misery of the oppressed.

We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.

From the very beginning in the womb of a woman, until the very last moment when a person’s breath speaks of his or her presence in the world, this life is human, even if it develops into an immense array of conditions of weakness [and] suffering. . . .

No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master. . . .

Great dangers always accompany great opportunities. The possibility of destruction is always implicit in the act of creation. Thus the greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.

The basic requirement for the understanding of the politics of change is to recognize the world as it is. We must work with it on its terms if we are to change it to the kind of world we would like it to be.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed.

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