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16 Jun 2009, 5:20 am
So, in those rare cases where I'm the respondent, I need to think carefully about whether to respond.By the way, the full study on which the NLJ article is based is in the George Mason Law Review. [read post]
12 Jun 2009, 3:01 am
“ There are not many better places to end a post than with a George Orwell quote, so I shall end mine here. [read post]
10 Jun 2009, 12:33 pm
George Orwell, 1984 I have previously argued that England has achieved the difficult goal of exceeding America in batshit-crazy alterations to public life in response to the Great War on Terror. [read post]
7 Jun 2009, 11:02 pm
On this day in ...... 1949 (60 years ago today), George Orwell's novel 1984 was published in England; it appeared in the United States 5 days later. [read post]
4 Jun 2009, 7:10 am
Radley Balko has some thoughts on the anniversary of Tiannenmen Square: George Orwell said, "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human faceâ€â [read post]
6 May 2009, 11:24 am
"I do not know whether Jackson knew or met George Orwell. [read post]
3 May 2009, 5:36 am
It is not my fight, but it smacks of the New Speak in George Orwell's dystopian novel, 1984, in which the government simply changes history to match its current needs. [read post]
29 Apr 2009, 3:26 pm
I recently rediscovered George Orwell's wonderful essay "Politics and the English Language," which I read years ago in college but had essentially forgotten. [read post]
26 Apr 2009, 7:08 pm
George Orwell would laugh.- Garry J. [read post]
7 Apr 2009, 1:29 am
"So are the best political blogs - that's why so many powerful people want to silence them. [read post]
5 Apr 2009, 12:47 pm
From "Politics and the English Language":By using stale metaphors, similes, and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself. [read post]
17 Mar 2009, 10:03 pm
In a more serious vein than my last North Korea post, it is worth noting that North Korea's social structure more closely approximates that of George Orwell's 1984 than even the... [read post]
30 Jan 2009, 7:27 am
It’s been almost two years since I referred to George Orwell’s 1984 in a Slaw Post, entirely too long. [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 10:19 am
The report is called “Airbrushing History, American Style: The Mutability of Government Documents in the Digital Era,” and puts one in mind of the Ministry of Truth imagined by George Orwell in Nineteen eighty-four: a novel (London: Secker & Warburg, 1949). [read post]
25 Jan 2009, 8:10 am
” This straw man is easier for Cohen to respond to, although the closest he comes to an actual answer is assigning the school administrators some George Orwell, Politics and the English Language, for summer reading. [read post]
20 Jan 2009, 1:52 pm
" Obama did violate George Orwell's guideline to avoid clichés when he said "we must pick ourselves up [and] dust ourselves off . . . . [read post]
26 Nov 2008, 10:29 am
George Orwell's discussion of dead metaphors explains why:Dying metaphors. [read post]
25 Nov 2008, 5:56 pm
George Orwell would have marvelled at the name, “The Center for Consumer Freedom. [read post]
7 Nov 2008, 9:01 am
As George Carlin put it, "There are no bad words. [read post]
6 Nov 2008, 5:12 pm
From the current issue of Newsweek, an interesting discussion of George Orwell's use of and sensitivity to language. [read post]
