I haven’t been feeling well the last few days . . . darn this cold-ish thing that everybody has!
I think I forgot to mention that I’ll be playing bass guitar at the second service at Community of Faith on Sunday. I’ve been spending what little free time I’ve had the last couple of days learning the part (it’s pretty complex). I don’t know exactly who’ll be playing, but apparently there’s going to be a whole band+choir setup. I’ll let you know more when I know more.
In the never-ending saga of rebuilding my poetry section (see the original plan and my last update), I’m happy to report that things are going reasonably well.
So here are some semi-final tallies (keep in mind they’re still subject to change) . . . after accounting for all the ‘lost’ poems, homogenizing the files, eliminating duplicates, and so on, there were 657 poems (this still included some duplicates, but only when the versions were significantly different). Among those, 292—about 44 percent—will not be published on this site in the first run.
Not long after I wrote In Holy Matrimony, my previous opinion piece on gay marriage, a new idea started developing in my mind. That idea grew, developed, and has since become an integral piece of my opinion on this controversial issue. I am interested to see what all of you—liberals and conservatives—think of it.
“America’s high schools are obsolete. By obsolete, I don’t just mean that they’re broken, flawed, or underfunded, though a case could be made for every one of those points. By obsolete, I mean our high schools—even when they’re working as designed—cannot teach all our students what they need to know today.”—Bill Gates.
A really good editorial in the Wall St. Journal this morning about a trend I’ve been noticing—anti-war folks coming (slowly) to the grudging conclusion that Bush may just be right about this whole war in Iraq.
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.
