Happy Ash Rooster!

Posted February 9, 2005, 8:00 p.m.

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!

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.

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Are introverts arrogant? Hardly. I suppose this common misconception has to do with our being more intelligent, more reflective, more independent, more level-headed, more refined, and more sensitive than extroverts.

Jonathan Rauch

In every man’s writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

Thomas Carlyle

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter Drucker

I feel convinced that my preservation was not altogether accidental, but was indeed the work of divine power.

Nikola Tesla

We are punished by our sins not for them.

Elbert Hubbard

We are not angels; that is why we should not be ‘spiritualists.’ We are also not animals; that is why we should not be materialists.

Peter Kreeft

You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him, and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and cleave to him.

Holy Bible

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Mahatma Gandhi

On the other hand, human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Douglas Adams

I find it hard, as a liberal, to see any justification for graduated taxation solely to redistribute income. This seems a clear case of using coercion to take from some in order to give to others and thus to conflict head-on with individual freedom.

Milton Friedman

And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done.

John the Apostle

The political correctness that inhibits cultural comparisons may be as great a danger as secret police in the long run, effectively silencing any defense of the West.

Ibn Warraq

In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.

Jack Welch

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

Samuel Johnson

Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death.

Fulton Sheen

Pregnancy involves three humans: A woman, a man, and a fetus. Any discussion that doesn’t take reality into account should be dismissed.

Alex Berezow

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Seneca the Younger

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

John Adams

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

Ezra Solomon

Do not return evil for evil or reviling for reviling; but on the contrary bless, for to this you have been called, that you may obtain a blessing.

Peter the Apostle

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