The Kennedy Chrysalis

Posted January 20, 2018, 4:59 p.m.

In the grand foyer of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, there is an eight foot tall bronze bust of President John F. Kennedy (D) that was sculpted by Robert Berks. It’s iconic and well-known, but I don’t like it. It looks like Kennedy’s head is encased in a chrysalis. When I see it, I sometimes (uh . . . always) quip that soon he will emerge as a beautiful butterfly.

You may or may not agree with my amateur art criticism. It’s not exactly my area of expertise. But still, here is an illustration of the life-cycle of the Kennedy from president, to pupa, to butterfly.

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

By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.

Paul Krugman

Just because we prefer something, that doesn’t make it good for us.

Scott Adams

Fortune favors the brave.

Terence

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature.

Carl Sagan

Once we stop believing that morality has a basis in objective reality, once we start believing that morality is nothing more than subjective feelings and wishes, once we reduce justice from a cosmic law to a private preference, we no longer see it as binding or fear to disobey it when it is inconvenient.

Peter Kreeft

God has not forsaken me, and he never will.

Anne Frank

Let’s stop blaming each other for things that happened more than twenty years ago. Humans change a lot in two decades.

Scott Adams

We don’t want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

Dan Quayle

[A politician will] double-cross that bridge when he comes to it.

Oscar Levant

As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in liberalism. But there was a rosy time of innocence when I believed in liberals.

G.K. Chesterton

[Human beings] know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in.

C.S. Lewis

Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.

John Basil Barnhill

There is a kind of selective memory that afflicts men when they view the past. They see the good and overlook the evil.

Isaac Asimov

I prefer the wrath of the world to the wrath of God; they can do no more than take my life.

Martin Luther

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.

Martin Luther King Jr.

A submissive sheep is a find for a wolf.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Beauty remains, even in misfortune. If you just look for it, you discover more and more happiness and regain your balance.

Anne Frank

We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

Edward Bernays

[You] shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill that which is born.

Catholic Church

There is a price which is too great to pay for peace, and that price can be put in one word. One cannot pay the price of self-respect.

Woodrow Wilson

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