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- 66 Views
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On Being a Reverse Snob (an homage to Orwell)
MAY 29, 2012 11:37PM
Topics: socialism, george orwell
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- 266 Views
- 0 Comments
1984 in 2012
FEBRUARY 19, 2012 5:28PM
Topics: wire tap, tyranny, thought police, spying, snooping, ron paul, richard nixon, rand paul, patriot act, oceania, ndaa, national defense authorization act, low flow toilet, libertarian presidential candidate, jules verne, j. edgar hoover, ingsoc, george orwell, gary johnson, faa authoriaztion, energy efficient light bulbs, dystopia, drone, big brother, 1984
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- 382 Views
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"Alcohol and Other (Damn It!) Drugs"
JANUARY 5, 2012 7:13PM
Topics: "politics and the english language", george orwell, language, politics
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- 652 Views
- 5 Comments
Newtspeak: An Introduction
DECEMBER 7, 2011 5:00PM
Topics: newtspeak, foxspeak, gopac, language a key mechanism of control, niccolo machiavelli, george orwell, cliche systems, newt gingrich + republican + 2012, newspeak, newspeak + orwell, danagram, daniel rigney, spinwords, belief/religion, vile + vocabulary + venomous + vitriol, no rant zone, politics, comedy, satire
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- 602 Views
- 1 Comments
Mitt Romney: History is Bunk. Whisk. Whisk.
DECEMBER 7, 2011 4:51AM
Topics: politics, open+call, gossip, rev. jeremiah wright, ray mcgovern, christopher hitchens, richard nixon, george orwell, aldous huxley, mitt romney
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- Editor's Pick
- 1666 Views
- 9 Comments
Fly me to the moons...
NOVEMBER 4, 2011 10:58AM
Topics: 1984, george orwell, japan, tokyo, literary fiction, haruki murakami, 1q84
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- 374 Views
- 0 Comments
UK FAT CATS BIRD THE LAW&HIRE A YANK TOP COP TO COVER ASSES
AUGUST 18, 2011 3:40PM
Topics: t-party, straw poll, pelaponesian war, no moderate voices allowed in uk or us, on point radio, david cameron, david miliban, bbc world news, urban riots, 1984 a novel, george orwell, travel, television, technology, politics, news, gossip, fiction, family, environment, economy, comedy, business, books, belief/religion
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- 626 Views
- 1 Comments
(Revised:) Huckabee wins the White House!
MAY 15, 2011 4:56PM
Topics: mormon, wingnuttery, mormonism, world war ii, glenn beck, mormons, xenophobes, history, orwellian, xenophobia, politics, home school, propaganda, home-schooling, american history, anita bryant, beck university, brainwashing, david barton, ed rollins, education, george orwell, glenn beck, history, american history, anita bryant, home school, beck university, brainwashing, home-schooling, david barton, ed rollins, homophobes, homophobia, huckabee, ignorance, indoctrination, maggie gallagher, mike huckabee, misogynists, misogyny, mormon, education, george orwell, mormonism, mormons, orwellian, glenn beck, history, politics, propaganda, racism, american history, home school, racists, revisionist american history, home-schooling, homophobes, revisionist history, anita bryant, beck university, homophobia, revisionist u.s. history, huckabee, ignorance, indoctrination, maggie gallagher, mike huckabee, brainwashing, misogynists, ronald reagan, u.s. history, white supremacism, david barton, ed rollins, education, white supremacists, misogyny, wingnuts, george orwell
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- 395 Views
- -9 Comments
DELETE THIS! WEIRD STUFF
MAY 13, 2011 1:20PM
Topics: journal jars, george orwell, saah palin, wil ferrell, delete. duck soup, black hole, uranus, patricia highsmith, strangers on a train, weird stuff, cormac mccarthy, blood meridian, all the pretty horses
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- 804 Views
- 7 Comments
What Will Our Future Be Like?
APRIL 28, 2011 4:46PM
Topics: the hunger games, suzanne collins, politics, science, fiction, belief/religion, george orwell, the children of man, p.d. james, the running man, stephen king, philip k. dick, flow my tears the policeman said, stand on zanzibar, john brunner, john wyndham, apre and essence, yevgeny zamyatin, we, aldous huxley, anna bowman dodd, dystopian novels, dystopia, margaret atwood, the handmaid's tale
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- 647 Views
- 5 Comments
A History of Violence or, Trying To Kill Cancer
APRIL 12, 2011 5:23PM
Topics: upton sinclair, s.e. hinton, mark twain, how the poor die, george orwell, charles dickens, cancer
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- Editor's Pick
- 2529 Views
- 27 Comments
On the Shutdown: Sometimes, Courage Means Looking Foolish
APRIL 8, 2011 5:38PM
Topics: budget showdown, government shutdown, current events, george orwell, rep. farenthold, elephants, shooting an elephant, congress, government, politics, budget, obama, senate
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- 322 Views
- 0 Comments
Decorum Betrayed v. Our Era of Overexposure
MARCH 25, 2011 10:39AM
Topics: cartoon souls, gardening tips, jungians, russell banks, affliction, joseph conrad, heart of darkness, repression, human nature, conformity, the banality of evil, newspeak, george orwell, tyler clementi, rutgers suicide, global village, marshall mcluhan, texting, cell phones, immediate gratification, gadget addiction, generation techs, chamber music 1979, doris grumbach, sexting, boundaries, rumination, the human condition, hannah arendt, privacy
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- 453 Views
- 1 Comments
Musings on the Universe
MARCH 24, 2011 3:51PM
Topics: michael sheldon, orwell: the authorized biography, linear path, literature, universe, social, burma, burmese days, eric blair, george orwell
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- 467 Views
- 4 Comments
Assorted shit
MARCH 13, 2011 5:08PM
Topics: wisconsin, wingnuts, united states history, unions, union busting, scott walker, revolutionary war, republican tea party, republican party, public-school teachers, public servants, president obama, president barack obama, politics, plutocrats, plutocracy, obama, new hampshire, michele bachmann, massachusetts, labor unions, labor movement, labor, jingoism, george w. bush, george orwell, fascists, fascism, democratic party, corporations, corporate power, collective bargaining, bush regime, boston tea party, boston, barack obama, bachmann, american revolutionary war, "tea party", "christo"fascists, "christo"fascism
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- 204 Views
- 1 Comments
War Is Peace Freedom Is Slavery Ignorance Is Strength
FEBRUARY 24, 2011 3:44PM
Topics: ronald reagan. republican party, politics, glenn beck, george orwell, 1984
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- 654 Views
- 1 Comments
Scott Walker's (Dis)Solution Strategy: A Tradition
FEBRUARY 17, 2011 3:51PM
Topics: american labor movement, mafia, anti-union workers, air traffic controllers strike, barry goldwater, socialized health care, ronald reagan, nation's first red scare, 1937 strike, uaw, flint, charlie chaplin, august spies, albert & lucy parsons, gilded age, marshall field, 8 hour workday, james green, origins of may day, john wells the company men, eugene debs, mark ruffalo, diane keaton, robert carsen, candide, leonard bernstein, haymarket square police riot, hormel strike 1985, national guard, iww, big bill hayward, huffington post, noam chomsky, walt disney, david o norris, dan hall, g-sachs' lloyd blankfein's latest bonus, michael moore, ge ceo jerry immelt, smear campaigns, democracy now, juan gonzalez, amy goodman, child labor, lewis hine, animal farm, george orwell, the jungle, upton sinclair, emma goldman, studs terkel, al franken
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- Editor's Pick
- 2265 Views
- 23 Comments
Ronald Reagan: Happy 100th to the Phony Conservative Icon
FEBRUARY 4, 2011 11:30AM
Topics: ronald reagan, john thune, sarah palin, mike huckabee, newt gingrich, mitt romney, george orwell, winston smith, barack obama, hillary clinton, 2012 presidential election
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- 690 Views
- 2 Comments
Copyright violators are thought criminals
JANUARY 26, 2011 10:40AM
Topics: robert mcchesney, ben bagdikian, dixie chicks, mass media, andrew magliozzi, history is a weapon, howard zinn, a people’s history of the united states, noam chomsky, harry lewis, greg mankiw, woodrow wilson, harold velde, copyrights, dorothy otnow lewis, alice miller, philip greven, murray strauss, rich media poor democracy, jonas salk, aspirin, ancient egyptians, bayer, philip zimbardo and stanley milgram, melvin kohn, class and conformity, michael sandel and the cognitive scientist steven pinker, buckley v. valeo, eric klinenberg, george orwell, joel tenenbaum
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- 430 Views
- 5 Comments
Be Afraid! Be Very Afraid!!
JANUARY 12, 2011 7:12AM
Topics: george orwell, 1984, glenn beck
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