Sentenced to Death
Posted on February 25, 2012 by CHC   ᐃ ᐁ

Hello out there.  I’ve been thinking.  My sentences?  Too long.  Way too long.  Too many subordinate clauses.  Too many fancy words.  Like “subordinate.”  And “clause.”

I’m no professor.  Why talk like one?  Really.  Three, four words max.  It’s all you need.  Word, word, word, period.  There you go.  Long sentences suck.  Short ones rock.

And paragraphs.  Don’t get me started.  A waste of time.  Space too.  Just look at Tolstoy.  No minimalist, he.  War and Peace?  Thirteen hundred pages.  Way too long.  Get real.  Bolkonsky, Drubetskoy, Kutuzov, Rostova.  Four paragraphs right there.  Oh, my eyelids.

So, concise is nice.  So long, long.

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Onward Dogmatic Soldiers
Posted on February 22, 2012 by CHC   ᐃ ᐁ

Just sharing some Google search statistics.

•   “Militant Muslim” — 301,000 results.
•   “Militant Atheist” — 174,000 results.
•   “Militant Christian” — 96,500 results.
•   “Militant Israeli” — 28,600 results.
•   “Militant Catholic” — 26,400 results.
•   “Militant Protestant” — 24,400 results.
•   “Militant Buddhist” — 14,300 results.
•   “Militant Jew” — 4,630 results.

I see this list as a fear gauge.  I’m surprised that atheists were only in second place.

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Dot Dot Dot …
Posted on February 21, 2012 by CHC   ᐃ ᐁ

I have something like seventeen blog posts in the works: skeletons of themes awaiting the flesh of words.  The topics include free will, taxes, originality, my mom, my best friend, business and politics.  Saying what I would like to say about these subjects calls for more than a Facebook-like attention span — therefore I ask friends of this blog to bear with me between posts.  I cannot possibly produce enough output to sate the maw of the internet, and so I will not try.

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