You may be asking, “What?”
Today is a simultaneous holiday for Melissa and me—it is Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent) in the Christian calendar and New Year’s Day (for the year of the rooster) in the Chinese calendar.
Thus, happy Ash Rooster; ???? (Kung hei fat choi); etc.
Have a nice day!
You may remember my July 2004 opinion piece titled Rooting for the Home Team?, which included—among other things—my method for picking Super-Bowl winners.
I am happy to report that this system has worked again. The Eagles were the underdogs, but the Patriots had them beat on both uniforms and mojo. Thus, my system correctly predicted the winner for a fifth straight year (read the column if that all didn’t make any sense).
Super-Bowl producers, expecting to avoid controversy by landing family-friendly ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney as the halftime act, have found themselves again embroiled in a post-Super-Bowl controversy on television decency.
“Things were going great at first, but then—in the middle of one song—Paul said ‘Hell,'” said one irate viewer. “I couldn’t believe my ears!”
I made some pretty major changes/updates/additions to the site today.
First, the Nonfiction section has been significantly reorganized. There’s a new category for “Opinion & Commentary” (for mid- to long-length material) and the “Mini-Rants” category is now, simply, “Rants” (for short- to mid-length biting commentary).
I did some reorganization in the ‘About the Site’ section today (I wasn’t really happy with how it worked before) and updated a lot of the content itself too.
The main ‘About the Site’ link takes you to a general page that provides a little background, legal information, and technical information. Once you’ve clicked into the section, you’ll see that the ‘About the Site’ menu item expands with links for ‘Content & Style Rules,’ ‘User Participation Rules,’ and ‘Retro Websites.’
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.
