Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

With Liberty and Justice For All

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What we know today as the Pledge of Allegiance was originally written in 1892 by Rev. Francis Bellamy. That’s right, that’s a Reverend in front of his name. Bellamy was a Baptist minister who wanted to come up with a pledge that could be recited by American school children on the quadricentennial celebration of Columbus Day.

The original text read as follows:

I pledge allegiance to my Flag, and to the Republic for which it stands: one Nation, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.

Notice anything missing?

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Methodist Jury Acquits Gay Pastor

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I’m not linking to this article because I agree with the outcome, but rather because it’s something major that’s going on within the United Methodist Church.

I should note that there are a couple of pieces in the Washington Post article that aren’t perfectly clear. First, this decision was a conference-level decision, which means it doesn’t necessarily effect anybody outside of the Pacific Northwest Conference. This is made more clear in the UMC’s coverage.

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Aiken, Clay—Measure of a Man

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I rooted for Clay during the second season of American Idol, but I never counted on buying his album or—God forbid—liking it. Modern pop music is overwhelmingly crap, and I expected an overproduced, hyped, electronically enhanced, new-age “R&B” influenced pop crap album like that put out by first-season Idol winner Kelly Clarkson or like Britney Spears’s two most recent albums.

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Bee Gees—Mr. Natural

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The Bee Gees were one of the more popular soft rock/pop bands of the late sixties, but their popularity had all-but-disintegrated in the early seventies—only to be rekindled by their later disco work. Today, the brotherly trio is remembered most for their contributions to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

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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.