Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

Failure to Yield

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(Written for Prof. Mandaville’s Intro. to International Politics [GOVT132] class at George Mason University.)

Introduction

“The Promised Land” is what Israelis call the land that is today the nation of Israel, though their Palestinian neighbors would beg to differ. This region of the middle-east has been a hotbed of religious and ethnic conflict for nearly as long as humans have had the ability to write about it, but in these modern times of explosives and firearms the bloodshed reaches levels unfathomable in Biblical times.

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George Would Be PISSED

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You know, the more time I spend at this “George Mason” place the more I realize that despite its respected Public Policy department, it has some real troubles with its own public policy. When I first came here, I thought college was just absolutely wonderful. But as the “euphoria-of-newfound-freedom” and such wears off, the ugly face of public education is rearing its head again to me—but this time, it’s costing LOTS of money.

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No More Playin’ That Funky Music

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I am a computer nerd, and beyond that I am a college student. Because of these two factors, I have little space for things and am always at the computer. Logically, therefore, I use my beloved PowerMac G4 Tower (Nadia) to listen to music, as it saves me the space a stereo would take and the computer is always on when I am around.

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Christmas In April: Slated for 2015

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Call me crazy, but I always thought that the Christmas season—which of course revolves around the Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ—probably ought to stick to the four weeks before Christmas, and then jingle around until perhaps New Years. This seems reasonable, as that’s about as long as the Advent period runs before Christmas and the recovery runs after.

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Board Out Of Our Minds

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As my project for this Government 103 class, I was asked to visit a government body in action. My selection for this project was to visit the Fairfax County School Board at their bi-monthly meeting on November 15. There were many reasons this was my choice, not the least of which being that I was a student in the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) system for over six years and, to be frank, hated it.

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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.