I'll have to tell Jim that I'm now a homophobe. He'll be as surprised as I was to learn it. Are we adding that to your femphobe, heterophobe, religiousphobe, conservative phobe, and humanphobe list?

Nihilism is the result of continued and extreme philosophical scepticism … Among the first developments of Greek philosophy we find the nihilism of Georgias, one of the Sophists, and a contemporary of Socrates. He taught (1) that nothing exists; for if anything were, its being must be either derived or eternal; but it cannot have been derived, whether from the existent or from the non-existent (according to the Eleatics); nor can it be eternal, for then it must be infinite; but the infinite is nowhere, since it can neither be in itself nor in anything else, and what is nowhere is not.

With regard to materials, all the frames should be of oak and so should the stem piece, stern post, upper portion of dead woods, knight heads, apron, beams, shelf clamp, bilge strakes, and keelson; the keel will generally be found to be either English or American elm.

They shall therefore ever keep the sincerity and intemerateness of the fountain, whence they are derived.