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29 Jan 2018, 3:30 am
It may be time, in the aftermath of mass incarceration, to not only reform, and shrink American crime control institutions (or the carceral state if you prefer), but to (use a horrible malapropism, forgive me George Orwell) de-systematize it. [read post]
20 Nov 2015, 6:22 am
Show notes are located at http://entertainmentlawupdate.com Here’s what we talked about… Jay Z Wins Copyright Case Because Plaintiff Did Not Have Standing Netflix and film studios face lawsuit over song captioning for deaf | Film | The Guardian CBS Radio’s Novel Defense on Pre-1972 Recording George Orwell’s Estate is issuing Copyright Takedowns for the Number ‘1984’ Appeals Court Rules “Point Break” Parody is Entitled to… [read post]
15 Nov 2010, 7:53 am
Tolstoy is the alpha and omega of this collection, evoked again in the final essay, James Woods' piece on George Orwell, a Hitchens favorite. [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 6:19 pm
When brutalizers of animals claim to be champions of animal welfare, somewhere, George Orwell is crying into his beer. [read post]
29 May 2014, 7:47 pm
Worse, he also violated George Orwell's great rule about never using an expression you've heard before when you write. [read post]
2 Jul 2012, 5:22 am
In 1945 in Animal Farm, George Orwell told us, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. [read post]
26 Jan 2007, 3:15 pm
Bill Gates has got nothing on George Orwell. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 12:44 pm
As Steve Jobs said, George Orwell is alive and they do want it all. [read post]
30 Jun 2012, 9:07 pm
Each principal party candidate has now proven by his actions - despite what he may have said, or may now say, to get elected - that he is steadfastly in support of unnecessary and immoral wars, that he is shamelessly in favor of lavish corporate welfare and bailouts to the rich elite who regularly and legally steal from the rest of us, and that he will obsequiously kowtow to Wall Street and big corporations and continuously pretend to serve the public interest without actually doing so.In… [read post]
29 Sep 2019, 7:43 pm
It incorporates law as necessary, but does not let legalese or George Orwell’s tricks-of-the-trade get in the way of clear communications. [read post]
26 Nov 2019, 5:15 pm
“For a similar vantagepoint, see the circumstances described by George Orwell,” the judge writes in her 118-page decision. [read post]
10 Mar 2008, 8:48 am
After Bellfield's conviction, the News of the World featured a former partner who suffered "10 years of horror", while the Sunday Mirror had his daughter recalling how he "gave her vodka to drink at 10 ... and mustard powder to eat".The piece contrasts George Orwell's comments on murder in a 1946 essay published in News of the World with what reporters write today. [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 12:00 am
There was recently an ironic event involving the mass erasure by Amazon of copies, ironically enough, of George Orwell’s 1984 from customers’ Kindle eBook readers. [read post]
31 Aug 2024, 1:26 pm
Its leaders are behaving like the hypocritical pig leaders in George Orwell’s Animal Farm.And independent Brazilian politicians including Senator Eduardo Girão, Congressman Marcel Van Hattam, and Vice Governor of Minas Gerais, Mateus Simões are all resisting the ban and posting on X. [read post]
24 May 2007, 9:14 pm
In the travel section I came across the pseudonymous Emma Larkin's wonderful Finding George Orwell in Burma, which demonstrates the truth in the Burmese joke that Orwell wrote a Burmese trilogy, including not just Burmese Days, which is actually set there, but Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four - the latter being the most naturalistic of the three. [read post]
23 Jul 2009, 5:56 am
The issue came up last week when Amazon.com reached into customers’ Kindle e-readers and deleted some e-books written — ironically — by George Orwell. [read post]
6 Mar 2008, 2:03 am
He doesn't seem to get anywhere but he provokes one commenter to remind us of what George Orwell wrote about "dying metaphors" in "Politics and the English Language":DYING METAPHORS. [read post]
29 Jul 2009, 3:17 am
The case proved that fact is often stranger than fiction since the books were George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm, conjuring up new images of the Orwellian vision of information control. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 9:52 am
. *** Let me take one more opportunity to reprint what George Orwell said about dying metaphors: Dying metaphors. [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 8:22 am
Back to enjoy work… *** I rather like this George Orwell quote: Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. [read post]
