Wedding Turkey (and a Bonus Parakeet)

Posted May 17, 2008, 10:10 p.m.

Melissa and I were at a wedding today in Rustburg, Virginia, and, for some reason, there was a big old turkey walking around. I don’t think the turkey had anything to do with the wedding specifically—I think it was just there—but I thought it was pretty random and worth documenting. Read on to see some more pictures of the turkey, plus a bonus picture of my parents’ parakeet Tarzan.

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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Milton Friedman

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Jesus Christ

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Richard Grant White

Ideally, science is a process, not a position or a belief system.

Rupert Sheldrake

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity.

Fulton Sheen

If you’re in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at some guys, throw one of those little baby-type pumpkins. Maybe it’ll make everyone think of how crazy war is, and while they’re thinking, you can throw a real grenade.

Jack Handey

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

Tom Clancy

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Jordan Peterson

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Virtue is not always amiable.

John Adams

Natural endowment is far less consequential than the ability to use it productively, and that ability is an outcome of culture.

Ibn Warraq

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Anonymous

If after ten minutes at the poker table you do not know who the patsy is, you are the patsy.

Unknown

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If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

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