Cliche Filter

The Cliché Filter will be an application program that flags phrases in a document that are hackneyed, worn, tired or trite. It will be able to stand-alone, or be a part of a larger application, such as a word-processor, email client, electronic dictionary, or search engine.

It is to consist of:

I. A set of routines for scanning text and detecting clichés against a known list (such as are already compiled in books such as The Facts on File Dictionary of Cliches, and The Dimwit's Dictionary , and online at sites such as Cliches Avoid Them Like The Plague.  

II. Interface that will allow users to approve replacements and modify the program’s operation.   

I wonder if it ever occurs to Noam Chomsky--say, when pulling up into the driveway of his $1.2 million summer home--that libertarian socialism might be bullshit.

The division of the labor of love.

Socialism isn't, and in fact can't be, the tyranny of the least and the dumbest, whose capacity for tyranny is limited. Even when nominally in power, as in the case of the highly inbred and mentally retarded King Carlos VI of Spain, the least and the dumbest aren't in charge. 

 

Atheists,


How many future Muslims, Mormons, Evangelicals, and Hindus do you think are born in the time it takes you to make your pithiest refutation of the teleolgical argument?

"Be fruitful and multiply" is practical Darwinism.

Everyone in the community shares everything? What about the world community?

Columbus as the boogey man of white supremacism isn't quite right. As an Italian of possible Jewish ancestry, his "whiteness" is heavily qualified.

just intentions

You, who are so fond of denying the intrinsic existence of ideas, are the battleground of ferocious conflicts between ideas--your psyche has been ravaged like a land that's known generational war. You don't doubt that ideas exist--how could you? You wish that they didn't exist--you will them not to exist, as you would debilitating pain. You aspire to nominalism--it's the faith you want, not your true faith, which is idealism.

"On a white horse with a sword this time, not hanging on a cross."

source?

God is the greatest artist, yet his creations always go awry.

Lucifer, Adam and Eve

The brightest of the angels and the children of God's image both

supernatural selection

Do nothing you'd criminalize.

The number of atoms in your body approximates the number of stars in the universe.

The Turks crossed an Atlantic-sized steppe to colonize Anatolia--then added Greece, the Balkans. They were only stopped at Vienna (twice) from colonizing western Europe.

Or, in a broader view, they were only slowed. The future of Europe is Muslim--albeit after a longer interval than one might have reasonably preidcted circa 1460.

Hubrism is natural.

Ibn Khaldun

Equal time for Ibn Khaldun. A broader, deeper, subtler thinker than Marx--whose historical assumptions were colored by Judeo-Christian escatology.

Barely an exaggeration: European civilization is Italian civilization.

There are no atheists in foxholes? I say no theists.

Would permiting marriage to gay couples threaten the very insitution of matrimony? Not for any reason that I see. But if it did, then that would be one good reason to support gay marriage.

to Santayana

Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it.

And so is everyone else.

Twilight made everything look like it was behind orange-red tinted glass.

Everyone is really someone else, suffering from not being who they really are.

What if the price of all of the art in the world is all of the pain in the world?

A writer? Of what? Stories? Poetry? Essays?

Of fragments. Floods of fragments.

Christians, what's your Christian duty to children in Africa dying of the absence of essentials in a world of plenty? 

The post American world will resemble, in many ways, the pre-American world, circa 1900. What broad historical process did the rise of American global power interupt?

Against a dull gray sky, the mountains are invisible, except for their dirty-white frosted peaks. They look like a belt of floating glaciers.

There's never been an atrocity so great that no-one felt the need to exaggerate it.