About the Site

Updated July 9, 2023, 6:31 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” (26.0.42/6.0.95). 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

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

As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

If you happen to be a human being—and many of my readers are—you are wrong about all sorts of things more often than you admit, and more often than you remember.

Let me say this once more: God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.

[The provisions of the Bill of Rights] were designed to meet ancient evils. But they are the same kind of human evils that have emerged from century to century whenever excessive power is sought by the few at the expense of the many.

There is an implicit but astonishing arrogance in the idea that all the apostles, all the church fathers[,] and all the millions of ordinary Christians were fundamentally mistaken about Christ for nineteen centuries, and only a few theologians, sitting at their desks, in a very different culture, nineteen centuries later, finally understood him.

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

But it is also true that in the midst of darkness something new always springs to life and sooner or later produces fruit. On razed land life breaks through, stubbornly yet invincibly.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men’s habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by inertia.

There can be no peace between Christianity and the Sexual Revolution, because they are radically opposed.

All people serve their ambition. In that matter, there are no atheists. There are only people who know, and don’t know, what God they serve.

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.

Many highly schooled people are uneducated, and many highly ‘educated’ people are unschooled.

I never had a master plan. I just got fed up one day and decided to do something about it.

We’re faced with problems that are caused by the fact that science—or that which passes for science today—is often neither accurate nor reliable.

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

How is it possible for us to retain the advantages of simplification, without falling prey to the accompanying blindness? The answer is to be found in the constant dialogue between genuinely different types of people.

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