Election 2012 Results (Final) » Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

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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I hold it to be sufficiently demonstrated that universal suffrage is by no means a guarantee of the wisdom of the popular choice, and that, whatever its advantages may be, this is not one of them.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right . . . [and] has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world.

Michael Crichton

You might think a topic is too complicated to master for your use, but you might learn otherwise in less than a minute if you bother to check.

Scott Adams

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

Afflictions are the steps to heaven.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

One of the grand fallacies of our time is that something beneficial should be subsidized.

Thomas Sowell

Everybody calls me Mr. President. It’s true. It’s a funny thing.

Donald Trump

The British parliament was advised [that] to disarm the people . . . was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.

George Mason

What I learned, I no longer know. What little I still know, I have guessed.

Nicolas Chamfort

Ideas are cheap. It’s only what you do with them that counts.

Isaac Asimov

Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God.

Theodore Parker

First, . . . a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it.

William James

Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?

Jesus Christ

The Church is not diminished by persecutions, but rather increased.

Leo the Great

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I know, without a special revelation, that the planets move in the orbits traced by the Creator’s finger.

Alexis de Tocqueville

There are three important things to know about human beings. . . . Humans use pattern recognition to understand their world. Humans are very bad at pattern recognition. And they don’t know it.

Scott Adams

When a democracy loses its moral sense, it can vote itself right out of democracy.

Fulton Sheen

Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped. . . .

Alexander Hamilton

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Year: 2012

Vacation Day 4: Mt. Hood Railway and Columbia Cruise

Vacation Day 3: Bonneville, Dufur, and Timberline

Vacation Day 2: Mount St. Helens

Vacation Day 1: Columbia River Gorge

TSA Prohibited Items: Idiocy

Romney Now the Presumptive Republican Nominee

River Birch Animal Farm & Washington Birthplace

Tangier Island

And Then There Was One

Strange Voicemail

TSA Agents: Just Following Orders?

The New Car: Mini Countryman

Saving Windows 8

Apple: How Times Have Changed

Chuck Colson: Crime and Redemption

Still Waiting for Android 4

Greeting the Shuttle Discovery

Mini Reviews: CR-V, Impreza, Rogue, and Countryman

Getting Back on the Wagon

Obama Now the Presumptive Democratic Nominee

April Fools Site: Going Colonial

Procuring Religious Freedom for Virginia

Onward to Revolution!

A Republic in the Balance

WSAB: What Should Apple Buy? (Updated)

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