Virginia House of Delegates, Special, 2022

Posted January 7, 2022, 9:00 a.m.

A special election will be held on January 11 to fill a vacancy in the 89th district of the Virginia House of Delegates. I make the following recommendation in that race:

89th District: Former Delegate Jay Jones (D-VA 89th) resigned in December. Giovanni Dolmo (R) and Jackie Glass (D) stand as candidates to replace him. I recommend voting for Giovanni Dolmo.

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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When you get into trouble 5,000 miles from home, you’ve got to have been looking for it.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Being right and being wrong feel exactly the same to all of us. We can’t tell the difference. If we could, everyone would agree on everything important.

A government, forever changing and changeable, is, indeed, in a state bordering upon anarchy and confusion.

I really didn’t say everything I said.

The first thing totalitarian leaders do is make sure their voices are the only ones left.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Scripture alone is insufficient. Authoritative teaching is also needed.

Men who don’t like girls with brains don’t like girls.

When you’re right, you don’t have to worry too much about stinging political defeats. All you have to do is sit back and let the winners enact their policies. If you’re really right, and they’re really wrong, their policies will fail.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

The West is able to look at its own foibles and laugh, even make fun of its own fundamental principles. There is no Islamic equivalent to Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Can we look forward to seeing The Life of Mo anytime in the future?

To be blunt, people would vote for me. They just would. Why? Maybe because I’m so good looking.

From the very beginning in the womb of a woman, until the very last moment when a person’s breath speaks of his or her presence in the world, this life is human, even if it develops into an immense array of conditions of weakness [and] suffering. . . .

True politeness is a polish, not a varnish; and should rather be acquired by observation than admonition.

Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

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.

The Americans . . . frequently allow themselves to be borne away, far beyond the bound of reason, by a sudden passion or a hasty opinion, and they sometimes gravely commit strange absurdities.

If the people are stupid, they can be easily governed.

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

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