The Un-Planned Hiatus

Posted January 9, 2013, 5:32 p.m.

So Off on a Tangent had a bit of an un-planned hiatus there. Sorry about that.

It’s not any one thing that got in the way of my regular posting, but rather a whole slew of things. I had furniture to assemble, light fixtures to install, holidays to celebrate, people to visit, events to attend, and—just for good measure—an awful stomach flu in December and a bad cold in January. Between those things and my regular, ongoing commitments, the site sort-of fell by the wayside.

But now that my second-illness-in-a-month is winding down and things are settling back into a normal, manageable pattern, I’m ready to make my triumphant return . . . if you want to call it that. So stay tuned; my patented brand of commentary will be back in this space shortly.

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.

Quotes

For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does what is true comes to the light, that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been wrought in God.

Jesus Christ

Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. . . .

U.S. Constitution

Miracles are not necessarily a cure for unbelief. If the will is perverse, all the evidence in the world would not convince, not even a resurrection from the dead.

Fulton Sheen

He who says he is in the light and hates his brother is in the darkness still.

John the Apostle

A hammer is good only if you stop pounding after the nail is all the way in. Keep pounding and you break the wood.

Scott Adams

Organic life . . . has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Bertrand Russell

A journey of a thousand miles starts under one’s feet.

Lao Tsu

Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven. . . .

Jesus Christ

Life’s most painful condition: to be almost a celebrity.

Mignon McLaughlin

Different kinds of economies are essentially different ways of making decisions about the allocation of scarce resources—and those decisions have repercussions on the life of the whole society.

Thomas Sowell

A healthy republican government must rest upon individuals, not upon classes or sections.

Teddy Roosevelt

It is right to learn even from an enemy.

Ovid

So, let us not be blind to our differences—but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

John F. Kennedy

It is a mistake to aim at an unattainable precision. It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong.

Carveth Read

The up-to-date science of one century soon becomes the primitivism of the next.

Peter Kreeft

Left entirely to men, the church ought to have perished at many points in her long history.

James Hitchcock

Look at my African American over here!

Donald Trump

Don’t bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.

Salvador Dalí

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Edmund Burke

It is . . . nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Albert Einstein

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