stoutfellow

Patrick Nielsen Hayden's site Electrolite is usually delightful. (So is Teresa Nielsen Hayden's Making Light.) But I've decided I particularly like the selection of commonplaces over in the right-hand column of the comments pages. A couple of examples:

I’m a fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberal, and I think fuzzy-headed warm-hearted liberalism is an ideological stance that needs defending—if necessary, with a hob-nailed boot-kick to the bollocks of budding totalitarianism. (Charles Stross)

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. (Charles Kingsley)

Go read the rest.