Straw Star

Posted June 18, 2009, 9:55 a.m.

I’m on the verge of catching a cold, I’m afraid, so in an effort to keep it at-bay I’m taking in a lot of vitamin C and green tea. Thankfully I’m not a Zicam user; I always found that stuff a bit suspicious and now the FDA has joined in my suspicion.

Yesterday afternoon, when I went to make a vat of green tea for the remainder of my day, I found the coffee straws in a bizarre, vaguely star-shaped jumble. For some reason, I found it very funny and chuckled about it for a while.

Isn’t it great how the dumbest little things can bring light into your day? I tend to be a fairly serious person and, as such, I can get a bit depressed as I follow world events, observe the moral degradation of society, fight with companies to provide appropriate levels of service, etc. I’m glad I can still laugh at straw stars.

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

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

Careless words involve risk of heresy.

So long as we have lots of warning, humans are astonishingly clever at solving problems, even enormous ones. So figure that into your predictions.

I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.

We must strive to reach that simplicity that lies beyond sophistication.

I’ve never been tempted to take any of my companies public. Making choices is a lot easier when you have to answer only to yourself.

Independent nations have therefore a natural tendency to centralization, and confederations to dismemberment.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Saints are not abnormal cases to be studied by a modernistic doctor. They were—they are—normal, with flesh like yours. And they conquered.

Those who oppose ‘corporate personhood’ should consider how difficult it will be to win a settlement against a company that you cannot sue because it is not a legal person.

If marriage is centrally an emotional union . . . it becomes much harder to show why the state should concern itself with marriage any more than with friendship. Why involve the state in what amounts to the legal regulation of tenderness?

Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business.

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

If science is to progress and to benefit the human race, it must return to the protective mantle that Christian thought provided it when it was born.

I had much rather be a real President for three years and a half than a figurehead for seven years and a half.

Authentic love is an act of the will that has two vital elements: self-sacrifice and commitment.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

The government official is supposed to be our servant. [But when an IRS agent] is auditing your tax return, which one of you is the master and which the servant?

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