Wow, it’s almost Thanksgiving! Who knew that a holiday could sneak up so quickly. I guess time flies when you’re playing with a new computer, at least if you’re a nerd like me.
Degradation of Discourse
Lately, I have been abstaining from political discussions.
It is not because I have lost my long-held love of debate; on the contrary, I long for the days where rational people of differing political stripes could sit down and—you know—talk to one another. I miss the spirited, intelligent discussions about the various merits of important issues. I miss the days when I could say what I believed and have my views respected by my peers, even if they disagreed with me.
COFUMC—’05 Charge Conference Speech
Good evening.
I’ve been asked to speak a little bit tonight about Community of Faith’s work with the Petersburg Urban Ministries in Petersburg, Virginia. I actually spoke about the ministry a year ago at our Charge Conference, so I apologize if you’ve heard some of this before.
“Just a Yellow Woman Doing a White Man’s Job”
I read a post with this title today from Michelle Malkin, one of my favorite conservative bloggers and columnists. Malkin—a woman of Filipino heritage—is constantly insulted, sometimes brutally, in a manner that would be roundly condemned as racist and sexist if directed at a liberal. In this case, she lashes out (rightfully) against those who have now directed this mindless wrath at her husband.
Ubuntu Linux 5.10
Five years ago, the Dell OptiPlex GX300 I’m writing this review on was my wife’s brand-new desktop computer. She purchased it so that she would have something new and speedy to run her engineering software on while she started at Virginia Tech.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.