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Steve Kent was quick off the mark on Thursday to pledge his unswerving, unstinting and constant loyalty to the ABC cause. Yes, the Family Feud is on. CBC's David Cochrane reported this evening that the Premier was so unsettled by a recent blog post at Meeker on Media that he fired off an e-mail demanding government caucus members declare their support for the Feud and indicate which candidate they...
By Lauren Vargas You have a blog, a Twitter account and a Facebook page (the list could go on and on). So what? Doesn't everyone? As social media becomes more mainstream, so does the content. It is increasingly difficult to be heard in the noise. How do you stand out? Go beyond lazy content. Choose your words wisely. Go Back to Basics "Our civilization is decadent, and our language - so the argument...
In August 1938, George Orwell started keeping a diary—and now, 60 years later, those entries are appearing day by day in a new blog , complete with a Google map to track his movements around England and the world. Orwell’s Spanish Civil War memoir, Homage to Catalonia , was one of the first books to get me thinking about travel writing, so you can bet I’ll be following along—even on those days when...
In turning the McCain campaign toward the traditional tactics of Republican politics -- that is, fear, contempt, and patriotism -- roy, i beg to differ. the republicans don't peddle patriotism; they peddle nationalism. there is a difference; i refer all of you to george orwell's definition, which i'm too lazy to post here but you can google it, if you like.
Terry Teachout at Arts Journal writes about his shock and amazement over George Orwell’s treacherous use of the semicolon. Paul Collins at Slate asks: Has Modern Life Killed the Semicolon? Jon Henley compares French and British allegiance to the semicolon in The Guardian. The French call it the “point-virgule” Jan Freeman: Sex and the Semicolon. And More [...]
I would like to pin a medal on the person who first realised that the blog format was a perfect way to republish notable diaries of the dead. Now we can read Samuel Pepys, Gilbert White, and George Orwell, among many others, day by day, often with annotations. I know it is entirely possible to [...]
"My thoughts are, we're going to get somebody who knows what they're talking about when it comes to rebuilding cities." -- George orWell Bush, on rebuilding New Orleans, Biloxi, Miss., September 2nd, 2005 Ladies and Gentlemen, this one ranks "right" down there with what Dumbya said on T Minus 147 - Dumbya Explains Why : "When I picked the Secretary of Education I wanted somebody who knew something...
George Orwell once said “those who control the present control the past, and those who control the past control the future.” Knowing our own history is very important for the working class movement. Llafur (Welsh People's History Society) is organising a day school to mark the 150th anniversary of the death of Robert Owen of Newtown, the ‘father of the Co-operative Movement’. The day school will start...
The West's foreign policy priority is no longer terrorism: it is to tame the new great power nationalisms and harness them to democratic ideals August 26, 2008 Courtesy Of TimesOnline Serious sport, George Orwell said, is war minus the shooting. If so, the Beijing Olympics were a world war that the United States believes it won (with most medals in total) but which the rest of the world agrees was...
This is a book I picked up while browsing at the University library for other books on Orwell, and am very happy for the random find. For those who want to track it down, the copyright page says the edition was put out in 2000 with just /Essays/ as the title, but originally was put [...]
Prof Jean Seaton: On George Orwell Jean Seaton is Professor of Media History at he University of Westminster ; and the Official Historian of the BBC. She is the Director of the Orwell Prize. Visit www.theorwellprize.co.uk Description tbc (12.08.08). http://audio.resonancefm.com/Free_University/The%20Free_University_of_the_Airwaves_On_George_Orwell.MP3
From The New York Times: This book has a thesis, and it is, on the face of it, a preposterous one: George Orwell = Evelyn Waugh. Why is this preposterous? Because Orwell and Waugh were, in almost every salient respect,...
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Jack Cashill serves up a bit of Obama Derangement Syndrome his Aug. 29 WorldNetDaily column : Although best known for his novels, "1984" and "Animal Farm," George Orwell was a political essayist of the first order. Writing 60 years ago or more, he all but predicted what might be called "the Obama Delusion." Cashill claims that Obama's supporters are "delusional" and in particular attacks "those with...
