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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]
8 Mar 2010, 1:33 pm
He writes: "As a teenager, I relished George Orwell's accounts of going into dangerous coal mines in The Road to Wigan Pier and washing dishes in Down and Out in Paris and London, and was likewise moved by Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed. [read post]
5 Mar 2010, 2:53 pm
While McPeak’s views on equality would make George Orwell laugh, more telling is his rather candid statement that repealing DADT will take committed leadership, something that he lacked both in 1993 and today. [read post]
24 Feb 2010, 7:44 am
”— George Orwell, “1984” Privacy issues are taking center stage as we enter an increasingly connected world.Our online activities are carefully monitored and meticulously tracked by some of the biggest players, including Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. [read post]
15 Feb 2010, 11:15 am
” And, finally, consider this quote from George Orwell during World War II: “Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. [read post]
13 Feb 2010, 3:27 am
Where are the anti-Utopian movie makes, the Aldous Huxleys and George Orwells of this generation. [read post]
10 Feb 2010, 7:51 am
I wonder what President Obama (or, for that matter, former President George W. [read post]
6 Feb 2010, 9:58 pm
In that sense it was a very influential work for me because I started thinking that he was a very attractive man and I ended up thinking that he was a very unattractive politician whose self-justification for the terror and the dictatorship and the ultra centralist discipline that he imposed didn’t have much merit.The fourth item is George Orwell, 1984, and how can one argue with 1984? [read post]
29 Jan 2010, 2:20 pm
Fairey had cultivated a reputation as a guerilla artist after he put up a series of images around Los Angeles with the words “Obey Giant” listed near a scowling face (of late wrestler/actor Andre the Giant), designed to be similar to images described in George Orwell’s bleak government oppressed future in the novel “1984. [read post]
29 Jan 2010, 8:38 am
George Orwell, in books such as The Road to Wigan Pier, urged "common decency" as the standard for social and economic justice in the Depression. [read post]
25 Jan 2010, 1:28 pm
Contra what I last wrote on these pages, it appears that George Orwell’s ghost is restless. [read post]
19 Jan 2010, 6:04 am
Others will say that we are on a slippery slope to George Orwell's 1984. [read post]
22 Dec 2009, 9:14 am
" Late Monday, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou promised to cut his country's budget deficit from nearly 13% of gross domestic product this year to under 3% - the euro zone's cap - in four years. [read post]
8 Dec 2009, 11:59 am
The term “good bad books†originates with George Orwell, I think: He used it to refer to low-brow books that lacked the academic or cultural pretension of great literature but nevertheless were irresistibly fun for intelligent people to read. [read post]
1 Dec 2009, 8:49 am
It's a topic that's not new to my readers - I've been writing about the striking similarities between pamphlets and social media for years (2003, 2009) and more recently read up on George Orwell's focus on pamphlets as a necessary component of communication for individuals to have the ability to freely express themselves. [read post]
22 Nov 2009, 7:14 pm
As George Orwell noted, “language can…corrupt thought. [read post]
22 Nov 2009, 11:49 am
It discussed the successful hacking—and said nothing at all about what was found.I was reminded of the verse by Humbert Wolfe (of whom I know nothing else—I encountered it in something written by George Orwell). [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 6:28 am
She remembers being a voracious reader, favorites including John Steinbeck's "The Pearl" and George Orwell's "Animal Farm. [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 1:38 pm
Under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIGA) the UK government will begin collecting information on every website search, telephone call, and email message, despite the lack of support from the public and from many of the government's own advisors.... [read post]
5 Nov 2009, 6:36 pm
While those in favour of the deal are keen to point out that if Google has the resources and the capability to save "orphan" works then it should, even if the motivation is profit(3).ConclusionAs I stated in the conclusion to my paper, "After all, as George Orwell wrote: “Who controls the past controls the future”, and Google could be said to be going a long way towards this end... [read post]
