I Voted; Did You?

Posted November 7, 2017, 11:48 a.m.

I Voted

I voted this morning at my polling place in South Riding, Virginia. If you are eligible to vote in Virginia, you should too.

There are many important races and issues on the ballot across the commonwealth. Here in Loudoun County, Virginia, we are voting for governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, our representatives in the Virginia House of Delegates, and two local ballot issues.

Take the time to research the candidates and issues on your ballot and make informed choices. Don’t let anybody tell you that your vote doesn’t matter. Don’t let anybody tell you that your choice is wrong. No informed vote is a wasted vote.

And let’s respect one another. I’ve made my choices—and I encourage you to read my reasons why—and you are free to make yours. I may not agree with you, but as long as you have seriously considered your choices, I respect them. I hope you’ll offer me the same courtesy in return.

Please come back to Off on a Tangent this evening for live results from the races that I am following.

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

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

[During the Revolutionary War,] our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do.

Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well, that no one could find fault with it.

In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.

One can survive everything nowadays except death.

Failing to look under the bed when you strongly suspect a monster is lurking there is not an advisable strategy.

Some advocates of science insist that questions science cannot answer are meaningless, but I find this unconvincing—and unattractively narrow-minded. The pursuit of science has led me to conclude that the future is open and novelty is real.

The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.

Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.

All pagan religions begin with the teachings of adults, but Christianity begins with the birth of a child.

Conscience has rights because it has duties.

No one hates Buddha; he is dead. But hatred against [Christ] would live on, because he lives. . . .

Now, if no other work were commanded but chastity alone, we would all have enough to do with this one; so perilous and raging a vice is unchastity.

Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody.

We are punished by our sins not for them.

You can’t achieve anything without getting in someone’s way.

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

If one doesn’t respect oneself one can have neither love nor respect for others.

Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and difficult as that.

We must not seek martyrdom, though we must endure it when it comes.