Word of the Day!

[ksquared]

ARGUMENT (ar-gu-ment) n.: A discussion in which disagreement is expressed; a debate, a quarrel; a dispute, a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating truth or falsehood, a set of statements in which one follows logically as a conclusion from the others.

So much arguing about arguing. What exactly is an argument one might ask.

Some people think arguing is simply a means of stating their prejudices and/or opinions. Some take arguing to mean a verbal fistfight. But this isn’t what arguments really are. They aren’t simply a statement of views or a dispute.

Arguments are attempts to support certain views with reasons. Giving an argument means providing a set of reasons or evidence in support of a conclusion.

Arguments are also essential. Not all viewpoints are equal and you can’t always tell who’s right by consulting your prejudices. So how does one decide which viewpoint is true? By arguing of course. An argument whose conclusions are supported by good reasoning and evidence will outweigh the other alternatives. We need to give arguments for the different conclusions and than assess those arguments to see which of them is stronger.

Arguments are essential for another reason too. Once we have arrived at a conclusion that is well supported by reasons, argument is how we explain and defend our conclusions. A good argument doesn’t just repeat conclusions. Instead, it offers reasons and evidences for how the conclusions were reached. Once you’ve become convinced of something, you must be able to explain how you arrived at your conclusions. That is how you will convince others, by offering the evidence that convinced you. It is not a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.

[Spexvet]

ARGUMENT (ar-gu-ment) n.: A discussion in which disagreement is expressed; a debate, a quarrel; a dispute, a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating truth or falsehood, a set of statements in which one follows logically as a conclusion from the others.

No, it's not:

http://orangecow.org/pythonet/sketches/argument.htm

:bbg:"
Man: I came here for a good argument.

Mr Vibrating: No you didn't; no, you came here for an argument.

Man: An argument isn't just contradiction.

Mr Vibrating: It can be.

Man: No it can't. An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.

Mr Vibrating: No it isn't.

Man: Yes it is! It's not just contradiction.

Mr Vibrating: Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position.

Man: Yes, but that's not just saying 'No it isn't.'

Mr Vibrating: Yes it is!"

[ksquared]

Arguments by Example – these types of arguments offer one or more specific examples in support of a generalization. They're only effective if the examples given are accurate. In order to check an arguyments examples, or to find good examples for your own arguments, you will need to do some research. But even than, generalizing from the pemises can still be tricky. To avoid some common pitfalls give more than one exmample, use representative examples, and consider using some counter examples.

[hcjilson]

Thanks to you both for the lessons above! :)

[RGC_man]

Bissextile. A word to strike fear into the heart of every self respecting man. It relates to February 29th every fourth year when women can ask their men to marry them. I first came across it in Dickens. He was worried women would follow the example of Queen Victoria and try to get happily married. Shocking.

[rinselberg]

diot
n.
Defined
A foolish or stupid person.

Etymology
[Middle English, ignorant person, from Old French idiote, from Latin idita, from Greek idits, private person, layman, from idios, own, private. See s(w)e- in Indo-European Roots.]


Can a word that everybody already knows be a logical choice for "Word of the Day!" --?

Maybe it's not always the definition that counts, but the usage. Yesterday, the Boston Red Sox completed their tenure as baseball world champions by losing for the third straight time to the Chicago White Sox in the American League Divisional Playoff Series. What a difference a year makes: Last October, the Red Sox were on the threshold of the most implausible reversal of fortune in baseball history. After losing the first three games of the American League Championship Series to the New York Yankees (the third game by the lopsided score of 19-8), the Red Sox rallied to beat the Yankees four times in a row, and then swept the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2004 World Series in four straight games. Pete Hanlin and company may be Ready for some FOOTBALL - but for some of us, it's the Boys of Summer that still occupy center stage at the moment.

Centerfielder Johhny Damon was the first to get onboard with a new theme for the 2004 Boston Red Sox: We're just idiots.

It was Johnny Damon that put the label of "idiots" on the 2004 Boston Red Sox: "We’re not going to try to figure it out," Johnny Damon told a reporter during the 2004 season, when asked how they were going to beat the Yankees. "We’re just a bunch of idiots. We’re just going to throw the ball, hit the ball, catch the ball. We want to keep the thinking process out of it."

credit: Red Sox leading idiot Johnny Damon on "Beating the [Babe Ruth] curse"



Johnny Damon was first: We're just idiots ... and sometimes it gets real "hairy" (under my batting helmet)


Just before the first game of the 2004 "Impossible Finish" playoff series between the Red Sox and Yankees, first baseman Kevin Millar improvised another verbal riff on the already celebrated "idiots" theme:

It's just, you know, we are idiots -- and I just think we're experienced idiots and that comes with that next statement, "controlled swagger."

credit: Kevin Millar pregame quotes



Kevin Millar made it official: We're just idiots.


Having "done" college near Boston, I'm more than a little partial to the Red Sox. But I grew up in St. Louis and think this is going to be a St. Louis Cardinals year when it's all said and done.

Graphics: http://vnboards.ign.com/WoW_Communit...03/92273493/?1



rinselberg™ - good posts for your good times
http://www.optiboard.com/forums/show...3&postcount=16

[ksquared]

University – An institution for higher learning

University is a composite of the words “unity” and “diversity”. It used to be a place where they taught you how to find unity in diversity. In others words, a place where you could go to acquire an in depth understanding of how all of the diverse fields of knowledge (the arts, philosophy, the physical sciences, mathematics, etc.) fit together to provide a unified picture of life. Although universities used to exist through out the world, most have since been closed. There are a few of these old schools left in existence but as time goes by they are becoming increasingly rare.

Today instead of universities, we have are pluraversities, institutions that teach every viewpoint, no matter how ridiculous, no matter how unsubstantiated, no matter how lacking in evidence, is just as valid as any other. All viewpoints have equal status and as such, are equally true. All viewpoints that is, except the viewpoint that just one religion or worldview can be true. That’s the one viewpoint considered intolerant and bigoted.

[rinselberg]

cowboy

noun 1: a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback [syn: cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman, cowpoke, cowhand, cowherd] 2: a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging [syn: rodeo rider] 3: someone who is reckless or irresponsible (especially in driving vehicles)


I bet you knew that already - but what about usage? What happens when one man's noun becomes (part of) another man's verb? Let's dial the Time Machine here back to late September, 2003 - in Boston:

Call it a spur-of-the-moment thing, but it's no bull. Red Sox fans are talking a new brand of talk, pardner, as their team gallops toward a playoff berth and a potential showdown with the black-hatted New York Yankees. Around Fenway Park, where doubt is the bucking bronco every fan rides toward postseason play, this year's rallying cry is "Cowboy up." Seldom heard around these parts -- or east of Dodge City, anyway -- the expression became popular several weeks ago thanks to Kevin Millar, the first baseman and designated hitter who obviously knows a cutting horse from a cut fastball, and relief pitcher Mike Timlin, a stalwart of the Sox (Brahma) bullpen.

Millar trotted out the phrase last month when certain cynics - those saddle-sore knights of the keyboard, otherwise known as sportswriters - questioned the team's toughness. "I want to see somebody cowboy up and stand behind this team and quit worrying about all the negative stuff," Millar growled after a loss to the Oakland A's.

"For this team it's perfect," Millar told a reporter from South Florida's Sun-Sentinal last week. "A cowboy is just like your tough guy, the guy that falls off the horse, broken arms and all that kind of stuff." Recalling how he and outfielder Trot Nixon picked up the phrase back in 1995, when the two played winter ball in Mexico together, Millar added, "This team has that kind of makeup ... a bunch of guys that go out and basically cowboy up."

I know I've seen that face around here a couple of times before: Uh-oh, it's another Kevin Millar sighting on OptiBoard ...

But there's more:

Insofar as it can be determined, the expression got its biggest boost from the 1994 movie "8 Seconds," a lame Hollywood oater based on the life of bull-riding legend Lane Frost. (Eight seconds is how long a bull rider needs to stay astride to win -- not how long it took the ball to roll through Bill Buckner's legs in 1986.)

Played by "Beverly Hills 90210" hunk Luke Perry, Frost was a legendary tough guy who rode hard and died young. In the film, fellow rider Tuff Hedeman admonishes Frost to climb back aboard after he suffers a bad spill. By "cowboy up," Hedeman explains, he means carry on "when you are injured or down and the prospect of doing whatever you're about to try is so bleak that the best you can hope for is to live through it."

Notwithstanding the fact that "8 Seconds" rode straight to video, more or less, "cowboy up" has managed to buck the odds and hit linguistic pay dirt, having been branded onto everything from clothing lines and bumper stickers to bull-riding documentaries and coffee-table tomes about the Wild West. Kiefer Sutherland starred in a rodeo-themed movie titled "Cowboy Up" that was released in 2001.

"Cowboy Up" is also the title of a novel, a country band from Tacoma, Wash., a line-dance, a marketing campaign by the state of Wyoming, and at least two songs, the chorus to one of which goes:

Oh, come what may, it's all a rodeo - Hang on and try to be tough - And when you draw the worst one - You get thrown and it hurts, son - Dust off and cowboy up

credit: http://www.boston...rallying_cry_spurs_sox_to_finish_ride

Well, this is certainly something to sing about - and sing you may, if you care to check your PC speaker volume level adjustment and then click on the loudspeaker icon ...

... and that is the theme song of the Boston Red Sox.

Visit the RinselTunes™ online jukebox sponsored by Laramy-K Optical.


rinselberg has posted previously on the topic of Major League Baseball under these post titles:

Oswalt that ends well
"Beat me in St. Louis"
blah-blah-blah the White Sox
Roberto "Remember the Alomar" and Jim "Two Silhouettes on Deshaies"
Somebody had to do it ...
After a thorough review of your question ...
It takes real talent ...
idiot
The Green Monster
Crazy Crab and the Acme Chop House
Splash Landing
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc.: J. Henry Waugh, Prop.


This post is dedicated to charter OptiBoard member and moderator "Harry" hcjilson and to any and all others who are online among us from Red Sox Nation.





Thirsty? Crack open an ice-cold OptiBoard post on the topic of Bud Light by selecting Anheuser-Busch pulls plug on popular MP3 audio downloads. If you haven't been back to see it lately, you haven't seen it all!

[rinselberg]

It's not my usual style to go "back to back" on this thread, one post right after another, but today has brought a remarkable convergence (linguistically speaking) between French cuisine and French politics - or sociology.

bouillabaisse
n.
1. A highly seasoned Mediterranean stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish.
2. A combination of various different, often incongruous elements: a bouillabaisse of special interests.

I am not a huge gourmet, but I had an association between the word "bouillabaise" and the Mediterranean port city of Marseille - an association that anyone may verify by doing a Google search with the keywords "bouillabaisse" and "Marseille". It came to mind after I posted a report elsewhere on the Internet about the racially diverse city of Marseille, which has remained largely peaceful, in contrast to the wave of rioting and civil disorder that has recently swept across France from border to border. I am struck by the second definition (above) for bouillabaisse: It could be said that in terms of its racial or ethnic demographics, Marseille is a "bouillabaisse" - and apparently, all the better for it.

If you would like to see what was posted about the situation in Marseille, click on RinselNews™ and it will open you to a "mini-OptiBoard" sponsored by Laramy-K Optical.

That's rinselberg™ - thanks for being part of it.

[RGC_man]

Bleeding Heart.

n.

1. Any of various perennial herbs of the genus Dicentra, especially the Old World D. spectabilis, having arching clusters of pink to red or sometimes white, heart-shaped flowers.
2. A person who is considered excessively sympathetic toward those who claim to be underprivileged or exploited.

bleed'ing-heart' (-härt') adj.

Not sure where this one comes from, but I recently visited Bleeding Heart Yard in London, a tiny enclave of industry that survives the expansion of the financial district. It was used by Dickens in Little Dorrit and would once have also been a slum housing area.

What you notice is a high wall in a gap between buildings covered in pretty balustrades. Leave the yard, and go for a walk round the block and you come across Ely Place, an exclusive private road with security guards, and a large balustraded wall at one end keeping London's rich and poor just a few feet apart.

[ksquared]

IRREDUCIBLE (ir·re·duc·i·ble) adj.: )Impossible to reduce to a desired, simpler, or smaller form or amount: irreducible burdens, irreducibly complex.

irreducibly complex - a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning.

An irreducibly complex system cannot be produced directly by slight, successive modifications of a precursor system, because any precursor to an irreducibly complex system that is missing a part is by definition nonfunctional.

If an irreducible complex biological system cannot be produced gradually, their exsitantance presents a powerful challenge to Darwinian evolution. Since natural selection can only choose systems that are already working, irreducible complex biological systems would had to have already existed in order for natural selection to have any thing to act on.

[spartus]

Pro·tis·ta (prO-'tis-t&) n.

Any member of a kingdom (Protista) of diverse eukaryotes, including algae, protozoans, and lower fungi.

Most are single-celled organisms, though the algae tend to be multicellular. Many can move, mainly by using flagella, cilia, or footlike extensions (pseudopodia).

[rinselberg]

Pro·tis·ta (prO-'tis-t&) n.

Any member of a kingdom (Protista) of diverse eukaryotes, including algae, protozoans, and lower fungi.

Most are single-celled organisms, though the algae tend to be multicellular. Many can move, mainly by using flagella, cilia, or footlike extensions (pseudopodia).

???

Offhand, I'd say there are at least one or two CIA agents who are about to lose their TG holiday because they will be working overtime, trying to decipher that last post - looks like an AQ sleeper cell trying to send a coded message over the Internet ...

[spartus]

???

Offhand, I'd say there are at least one or two CIA agents who are about to lose their TG holiday because they will be working overtime, trying to decipher that last post - looks like an AQ sleeper cell trying to send a coded message over the Internet ...

This proves is that Word of the Day is a vital learning resource. Evidently, it's not a term you were familiar with, so I'm happy I could help. :) This would be a good start to continue your, er, continuing education.

[ksquared]

cilia: hair-like structures that are used for locomotion, and in some species, for feeding.

Today we take a look at the simple cilia.

A cilium consists of a membrane-coated bundle of fibers called an axoneme. The axoneme contains a ring of 9 double microtubules surrounding 2 central single microtubules. The filaments of the 11 microtubules are composed of two proteins called alpha and beta tubulin and are held together by three types of connectors. The subfibers are joined to the central microtubules by radial spokes, the adjacent outer doublets are joined by linkers that consist of a highly elastic protein called nexin, and the central microtubules are joined by a connecting bridge. Finally, every subfiber has two arms, an inner and an outer, both containing the protein dynein.

Experiments indicate that ciliary motion results from the chemically-powered "walking" of the dynein arms on one microtubule up the neighboring subfiber of a second microtubule so that the two microtubules slide past each other. However, the protein cross-links between microtubules prevent neighboring microtubules from sliding past each other by more than a short distance. These cross-links convert the dynein-induced sliding motion to a bending motion of the entire axoneme.

Dynein isn't the only protein involved. Cilia are composed of at least a half dozen proteins: alpha-tubulin, beta-tubulin, dynein, nexin, spoke protein, and a central bridge protein. These combine to perform one task, ciliary motion, and all of these proteins must be present for the cilium to function. If the tubulins are absent, then there are no filaments to slide; if the dynein is missing, then the cilium remains rigid and motionless; if nexin or the other connecting proteins are missing, then the axoneme falls apart when the filaments slide.

What we see in the cilium is not only profound complexity, but also irreducible complexity on the molecular scale. The cilium must have the sliding filaments, connecting proteins, and motor proteins for function to occur. In the absence of any one of those components, the apparatus is useless.

The lowly cilia may be composed of single molecules but the complexity of the cilium is final and fundamental. Since the irreducibly complex cilium cannot have functional precursors it cannot be produced by natural selection, which requires a continuum of function to work. Natural selection is powerless when there is no function to select.

[rinselberg]

???

Offhand, I'd say there are at least one or two CIA agents who are about to lose their TG holiday because they will be working overtime, trying to decipher that last post - looks like an AQ sleeper cell trying to send a coded message over the Internet ...

Great post there, ksquared.

You have just tied up the entire code-breaking assets of the CIA, NSA, all DoD branches and whatever else there might be under Homeland Security for the NEXT MONTH.

[rinselberg]

Main Entry: blogosphere
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: a collective term for the world of weblogs, the community of all weblogs; also called blogsphere
Etymology: 1997; blend of blog + stratosphere

Main Entry: blog
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: an online diary; a personal chronological log of thoughts published on a Web page; also called Weblog, Web log
Example: Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author.
Etymology: shortened form of Weblog

Source: Webster's New Millennium™ Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.6)
Copyright © 2003-2005 Lexico Publishing Group, LLC

Usage:

OptiBoard member rinselberg has created a modest, but ever expanding Web footprint, by carving a cyberspace subset of URLs and hypertext links, richly augmented with graphics, audio and text data, on the global information-trading commodity and futures exchange known as the blogosphere.


Boston Red Sox baseball player Kevin Millar has already made three appearances (to date) in rinselberg's cyberspace, which he promotes under the mock umbrella tradename rinselberg™.

rinselberg's first and second blogs, Home Page and RinselWorld, chronicle his Internet posting activities from January 2004 through July 2006.

RadioFreeRinsel is rinselberg's third and latest blog: A catalog of his more recent posts, from the end of July 2006 and forward.

rinselberg has also created a "blog-like entity" which he promotes under the mock tradename RinselTunes™.

RinselTunes serves up user-selected streaming or downloaded audio files, featuring a small but growing repertoire of popular music, consisting mostly of club and recording studio jazz tracks, augmented in an iconoclastically eclectic style by interspersing movie soundtrack themes, classic rock and soft/vocals pop/fusion tracks.

The collection includes vintage recordings that date back to, or artistically recreate, certain 20th century periods, notably the swing and bop eras and the cool or West Coast jazz sound, along with some memorable World War Two era voice recordings and soundtrack themes.

RinselTunes is available to the Internet community in the format of an online jukebox sponsored by Laramy-K Optical: As a subsidized Laramy-K promotion, its services are free to all.


RinselTunes currently offers more than 100 audio track selections, and hypertext links to Web pages offering many more.

The next destination of interest is another blog-like entity, also sponsored by Laramy-K Optical, and promoted under the mock tradename RinselNews™.

RinselNews is updated less than daily, but more than weekly, with a spectrum of news stories culled from MSNBC Online and other online news sources.

Common themes are international politics and security issues, Iraq, GWOT (Global War On Terror), national politics, the environment, science and technology developments (sometimes related to optics), new artistic endeavors and the occasional humorous or "peculiar" news posting.


First photograph of a living giant squid: From a recent RinselNews post. Credit: MSNBC.

rinselberg wants his guests in cyberspace to spend some quality time online, as a small coffee or soft drink break at their Internet workstation, desktop or laptop, and come away shaking their heads and saying to themselves "It just bloggles the mind ..."

The hypertext links that serve as the standard vBulletin software powered gateways to rinselberg's cyberspace are provided as "clickable" and mnemonically-disguised URL text strings in rinselberg's OptiBoard Poster Signature field, immediately below.

[amoura_0]

hey, great blog there , i mean great post....

keep it up ;)

[hcjilson]

At the risk of butting into the fine work by others that have graced this thread, notably ksquared and rinsel, I submit the following and hope that the readers of this thread, and the contributors will feel free to use it when appropriate! ( except after posts I make! :bbg: )

Word of the Day for Tuesday December 6, 2005

logorrhea \law-guh-REE-uh\, noun:
Excessive talkativeness or wordiness.

By his own measure, he is a man of many contradictions,
beginning with the fact that he is famous as a listener but
suffers from "a touch of logorrhea." He is so [1]voluble
that one wonders how his subjects get a word in edgewise.
--Mel Gussow, "Listener, Talker, Now Literary Lion: It's
Official." [2]New York Times, June 17, 1997

It's also not good if your date has logorrhea.
--Monte Williams, "8 Minutes in the Life of a Jewish
Single: Not Attracted? Next!" [3]New York Times, March 5,
2000

Mr. King, who possesses an enviable superabundance of
imagination, suffers from a less enviable logorrhea.
--Michele Slung, "Scare Tactics." [4]New York Times, May
10, 1981
_________________________________________________________

Logorrhea is derived from Greek logos, "word" + rhein, "to
flow."

[ksquared]

EPICURE (EP-ih-kyur) noun:one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine

"Griffin considered himself something of an epicure, with an ability to taste and smell that was the functional equivalent of perfect-pitch." (Terence Monmaney, _Discover_, September 1987)

Epicurus, a Greek philosopher who lived from 341-270 B.C., believed that the best life was one of simple pleasures in which a person lived with a tranquil mind and freedom from pain. When "epicure" entered English in the 16th century, it referred to someone who followed the philosophy of Epicurus. But over time people came to believe that the philosopher actually encouraged his followers to pursue material and sensual gratification, so the term was soon applied to anyone devoted to materialistic self-indulgence; it later came to be used for one who loves good food and wine.

[ksquared]

AMBIGUITY(am·bi·gu·i·ty) n.: an expression whose meaning is unclear by virtue of it having more than one meaning.

Examples:

• After Hubert Humphrey lost the election to Richard Nixon, he said, "I'd always wanted to run for president in the worst way, and now I have."
• When Barry Goldwater ran for president, his slogan was, "In your heart, you know he's right."

There are three categories of ambiguity - lexical (part-of-speech), syntactic (structural), and semantic.

Examples:

• Iraqi head seeks arms (semantic)
• Prostitutes appeal to pope (lexical)
• Stolen painting found by tree (structural)

Although ambiguities can be a harmless and amusing feature of ordinary language, if unnoticed in the context of otherwise careful reasoning, it can lead to one of several informal fallacies which can cause an unsupported conclusion to be reached.

Examples:

• "I’ll give you a ring tomorrow."
• "One morning in Africa, Captain Spaulding shot an elephant in his pajamas. Therefore, it is dangerous for large animals to wear human clothing."
• "Offered a hand…Chip, politely declines "I'll only take an eye or a tooth.”

[ksquared]

dagmar:noun

Large bullet-shaped protrusion on bumpers of cars in the 1950s. It was named after the nickname of a buxom television star, Virginia Ruth Egnor (1921-2001).



Dagmar is also an automobile of which only the 25-70 models of 1925-1948 are classic cars.

[ksquared]

MIASMA (my-AZ-muh; mee) noun:
1. A vaporous exhalation (as of marshes or putrid matter) formerly thought to cause disease; broadly, a thick vaporous atmosphere or emanation.
2. A harmful or corrupting atmosphere or influence; also, an atmosphere that obscures; a fog.

The critics, he says, "will sit in their large automobiles, spewing a miasma of toxic gas into the atmosphere, and they will thank you for not smoking a cigarette."-- Charles E. Little, "No One Communes Anymore,"

To destroy such prejudices, which many a time rise and spread themselves like a miasma, is an imperative duty of theory, for the misbegotten offspring of human reason can also be in turn destroyed by pure reason.-- Carl von Clausewitz, On War (Translated by Colonel James John Graham)

Who would have thought such a simple question could generate such miasma. - - Chm2023, hi I'm new - could you help me? (Translated by K times 2)

[rinselberg]

xistentialism is not a philosophy, but a mood embracing a number of disparate philosophies; the differences among them are more basic than the temper which unites them. This temper can be described as a reaction against the static, the abstract, the purely rational, the merely irrational, in favor of the dynamic and concrete, personal involvement and engagement, action, choice and commitment, the distinction between authentic and inauthentic existence, and the actual situation of the existential subject as the starting point of thought. Beyond this the so-called existentialists divide according to their views on such matters as phenomenological analysis, the existential subject, the intersubjective relation between selves, religion, and the implications of existentialism for psychotherapy ...

Insofar as one can define existentialism, it is a movement from the abstract and the general to the particular and the concrete ...

Brent Dean Robbins, "Mythos & Logos" at http://mythosandlogos.com/


Usage:

By referring to himself in the third person, using post titles that are idiosyncratic and crafted to appeal to a fictional or surrealist aesthetic (as opposed to an objective transparency or consistent rationalism), appending the commercial trademark symbol "TM" to his poster name, recycling advertising taglines in a self-referential way and creating a web of self-referential poster signatures and psuedo-blogs to link each new post to one or more of his previous posts, OptiBoard member rinselberg™ strives to transform the activity of Internet forum posting into a daily affirmation of postmodernist existentialism.

Graphics: http://www.pointlessart.com/newArt/a...ges/E%20is.htm

[ksquared]

puerile (PYOO-uhr-uhl) adj.: Displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; juvenile; childish.

And, in one of the most puerile episodes of his adult career, he punishes his old schoolmates for being rich and vulgar by breaking into their houses to soak the labels off their boasted wine collections.
-- Thomas R. Edwards, "Mordecai Richler Then and Now," New York Times, June 22, 1980

Political argument is becoming a puerile cartoon about the moral . . . doing battle with the immoral.
-- George F. Will, "The Costs of Moral Exhibitionism," Washington Post, April 15, 2001

A puerile post belies (misrepresents) senility, and causes problems where none need exist.
-- Cape Codger, “Consumer Questions,” Opti-board March 19,2006