Got Gas?

Posted January 14, 2010, 11:58 p.m.

We got home today and found this note from Washington Gas informing us that our service was off because a line had been damaged across the street (presumably amid the home building in the neighborhood).

When the power goes out, they just turn it back on when they fix the problem. Apparently when gas gets shut off, they don’t just turn it back on when they’re done. I think it has something to do with the fact that gas can explode. Go figure.

Anyway, Melissa got a hold of the company while I did a few errands, a guy came out and hooked everything back up and made sure the heater worked, and now we’re good-to-go. It was a big, goofy waste of time really.

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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Do you want to know why people are trapped in poverty in so many inner cities? The picture is complex, but undeniably a key element of it is the destruction of the family and the prevalence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies and fatherlessness.

And fortunately, being an American, I don’t have to whimper, I don’t have to whine, I have the right to protest, and I like that.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

I believe it was Jung who developed the most surgically wicked of psychoanalytic dicta: if you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences and infer the motivation

Why is it nobody understands me and everybody likes me?

There is no such thing as public money; there is only taxpayers’ money.

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

You will admit that it is impossible to please God and the world. That can never be.

At its birth violence acts openly and even with pride[, but] it cannot continue to exist without descending into a fog of lies. . . .

Literally speaking, there exist no mysteries, there are only truths; but truth becomes a mystery to him who does not understand it.

The more rules and regulations, the more thieves and robbers.

There’s no device known to mankind that will prevent people from being idiots.

The world stands by balanced antagonisms.

No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master. . . .

The more project management you do the less likely your project is to succeed.

[Without a free press] the nation ceases to be mindful of itself . . . and . . . compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another.

Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences.

All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.

I am a gun. I can be used for both good and evil. I can take a life. I can be used to save them.

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

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