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mnblue - (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
"America better beware of a candidate who is willing to stretch reality in order to win points." --George orWell Bush, aboard his campaign plane, Sept. 18, 2000 DOH! But not only was Bush The Lesser willing to stretch reality, he and his misAministration were willing to do it over and Over and OVER again. How many times, just on Iraq? Well, the Center For Public Integrity says 935 times, and here’s...
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www.VoiceofCanada.ca (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
“In a time of universal deceipt, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” George Orwell In recent weeks both VoC and CANACE have been highly critical of members of Haldimand Council for their refusal to attend CANACE presentations and events while three councillors sat in on the presentation of a bizarre plan by the Haldimand Tract Good [...]
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Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Jim Murdoch : Like George Orwell before him, Samuel Beckett had a strong aversion to being filmed or even having his voice recorded... You might imagine that Beckett's reluctance to be interviewed came as a result of the overnight fame he achieved after Waiting for Godot but this is not the case. It is a little known fact that an abridged version of the play was first broadcast on French radio. Beckett...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
“As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.” - George Orwell
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Technoccult (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The results from Disinfo’s reader survey: 1. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 3. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson 4. The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy), J. R. R. Tolkien 5. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley 6. Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut 7. The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger 8. Tao [...]
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mnblue - (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
"But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me." - George orWell Bush, summing up his first year in office, Washington, D.C., Dec. 20, 2001 Yeah, "right." Fabulous, simply fabulous. Thankfully, there's only 181 days until The End Of An Error.
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The Happiness Project (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Recently, in a post, I included a quotation from George Orwell's essay, Reflections on Gandhi. The essay is absolutely fascinating, on a number of levels, and also quite controversial; I found myself thinking about a different section of it today,...
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Not PC (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
At some stage in their lives every thinking person has to read the 'complete collection of classic dystopian novels.' There are many pretenders, but this is the core list: Brave New World , by Aldous Huxley 1984 , by George Orwell Utopia , by Thomas More Clockwork Orange , By Anthony Burgess Fahrenheit 451 , by Ray Bradbury We , by E.I. Zamyatin Anthem , by Ayn Rand If you haven't already, check them...
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Inveresk Street Ingrate (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
What the hell happened to my old George Orwell link ? That was a brilliant resource that seems to have gone awol. Until further notice, this link will have to do.
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The Swine Line (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Just when you thought it was safe to go outside, Google maps is trying to photograph every last inch of the earth (good luck driving to the summit of Mount Everest). In fact, The Washington Examiner ran an article with an accompanying photo of one of the cars used to photograph this. George Orwell must have been thinking [...]
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Anti-Strib (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
In the novel 1984, George Orwell used the word “doublethink” to describe the process of believing two contradictory ideas simultaneously. The concept invites an appropriate but superficial comparison to congressional Democrats’ current approach to gasoline prices. Idea Number One: High gasoline prices are good. A high price, imposed through federal carbon taxes or carbon caps, is precisely the mechanism...
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Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
David Freddoso on Drilling & Democrats on National Review Online In the novel 1984, George Orwell used the word “doublethink” to describe the process of believing two contradictory ideas simultaneously. The concept invites an appropriate but superficial comparison to congressional Democrats’ current approach to gasoline prices. Idea Number One: High gasoline prices are good. A high price, [...]
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splitbrain.org blog (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
As you can see in my “currently reading” section on the right, I'm currently reading Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother" . I haven't read a book for a long time that moved me as much as this one. The name is obviously a play on the omnipresent “Big Brother” from George Orwell's 1984 . Like Orwell's book, “Little Brother” is a dystopian novel describing a not too distant future. What’s Little Brother...
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Online Public Relations Thoughts (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Rewriting the past is harder to pull off with bloggers watching one's moves. When Barack Obama changed his web page copy on Iraq , it was caught immediately. The internet has largely alleviated George Orwell's fears, but politicians have yet to learn that the world is watching what they do every minute of the day. It is a reminder to the rest of us as well. Out of the millions using the internet, someone...
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SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
SF author Cory Doctorow told SCI FI Wire that his latest novel, Little Brother, echoes George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four, but added that he doesn't think of his book as dystopian.
