Crazy enough to succeed? Jul 14, 2008
A steady stream of people all living with obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD approach the half door and utter some variation of "I have to go to the bathroom." The attractive young woman on duty smiles and hands over a small quantity of toilet paper, a squirt of soap in a specimen cup, and a paper towel with a cheery "Here you are!" This is what grade school must have seemed like to George Orwell. Pretty soon I have to go, too. (MSNBC -- Health)
‘Pages from the Past’ offers glimpse of history Jul 13, 2008
Pages from the Past offers glimpse of history 07/13/2008 Where can you view movie footage of the Hindenburg explosion, find the speeches of F.D.R., listen to the broadcast of George Orwell s War of the Worlds, and read the original Air Force report on the Roswell UFO incident. Pages from the Past is a special feature of the Local History page on the Times-Tribune Web site that includes actual front pages from our newspaper. (Scranton Times, PA)
Animal ID rolls ahead with premises registration (11) Jul 7, 2008
Cherie Graves wrote on Jan 3, 2006 11:16 AM:" NAID is going to eventually be in every home across the United States that owns animals, fish, fowl, birds, reptiles, exotics. All of our animals bodies will be invaded by microchips, and anyone who wants to own an animal will have to register their property, and have a USDA license. This is far more invasive than George Orwell envisioned in his "1984". There will never even be the pretense to privacy in the United States of America again. NAID is... (Sioux Falls Tri-State Neighbor, SD)
* Never underestimate propaganda Jul 4, 2008
In his classic novel 1984, George Orwell painted a dark picture of this phenomenon. Winston Smith, the main character, is shown four fingers but told he sees five. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
PATT MORRISON: Of Orwell, Wall-E and patriotism Jul 4, 2008
The two are about as different as, oh, George Orwell and Walt Disney. But between them, I was energized, terrified and inspired, and I came away thinking that we can still reach "the better angels of our nature." The play is Orwell's "1984" at the Redcat venue at the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and it's a relentless, effective piece of political theater, directed by Tim Robbins for his Actors' Gang ensemble. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
FEATURE-Siberian jail is champion in fight against TB Jul 4, 2008
Previously known as consumption, TB killed millions including the 19th-century Polish composer Frederik Chopin, Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and 20th-century English writer George Orwell. Rising living standards and antibiotics virtually wiped out TB -- bacteria spread via droplets which commonly attack the lungs invoking a bloody cough and sapping energy -- in the developed world during the second half of the 20th century. (AlertNet)
Your Friday reads Jul 4, 2008
As a verb it goes beyond Kremlinspeak and into the world of George Orwell. The Valleywag blog was positively acidic in : "Because BoingBoing started as a personal blog, it's entitled to be as petty, as hypocritical, and as inconsistent as a 14-year-old girl with a MySpace page. ... Had this happened at another website, we'd be reading all about it at BoingBoing, with its editors in a righteous nerd froth.". (Globe and Mail -- Technology)
'Big part of our future' now part of team's past Jul 1, 2008
I think he listened to too many George Orwell books on tape. By UpperDeck4Life. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Animal-Rights Farm Jul 1, 2008
George Orwell wrote the cruel finale to this tale 63 years ago in : "All animals are equal. But ." That wasn't how the egalitarian uprising in the book was supposed to turn out. It wasn't how the animal rights movement was supposed to turn out, either. (Slate)
Thanks to technology, public eye is open wider than ever Jun 30, 2008
If only author George Orwell knew how much Big Brother could see now. Pastors are being caught in compromising positions. (New Haven Register, CT)
Uncle Sam's cyber force wants you Jun 28, 2008
Part of the air force's new "above all" vision of full-spectrum dominance, America's emerging cyber force has control fantasies that would impress George Orwell. Working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Department of Homeland Security and other governmental agencies, the air force's stated goal is to gain access to, and control over, any and all networked computers, anywhere on Earth, at a proposed cost to you, the American taxpayer, of US$30 billion over the first five... (Asia Times Online)
An old Continent at play Jun 28, 2008
The progress of the Olympic flame, from London to Tibet, has already been an ugly farce, and there are haunting memories of other controversial Games, above all the 1936 Olympics in Berlin (which introduced the torch, as it happens), which were cited by George Orwell when he insisted that "international sporting contests lead to orgies of hatred.". Yet that characteristically lurid phrase wasn't the whole truth. (International Herald Tribune)
1198 comments Jun 27, 2008
George Orwell has arived via the Dems. They want us to just shut up and follow their lead. (Human Events Online)
PELOSI SUPPORTS REVIVAL OF MEDIA 'FAIRNESS DOCTRINE'... Jun 26, 2008
as pointed out in Robert Spencer's article "George Orwell meets the OIC", and we face the potential extermination of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution itself. Again, I refer to "George Orwell meets the OIC" to point out Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu's further statement, We have established an OIC Group in Washington D.C. with the aim of playing a more active role in engaging American policy makers. (The Drudge Report)
PowerRatings Stocks On Pullback Jun 25, 2008
In the same way that, as George Orwell put it in his classic tale, Animal Farm, some animals are "more equal" than others, some breakdowns are more worthy than others. While some breakdowns represent the real likelihood of still lower prices to come, other breakdowns, as severe as they may be, more accurately reflect opportunity for traders disciplined enough to wait for it. (Forbes -- Markets)
George Orwell meets the OIC Jun 25, 2008
We sent a clear message to the West regarding the red lines that should not be crossed. That sounds like the statement of a victor in a war, dictating terms to the vanquished. (Human Events Online)
Dictatorship comes naturally to them, right? Jun 24, 2008
But dictators can create reality, as George Orwell reminded us, with terror and misinformation. Just last year, indeed, Mr. Mugabe received a hero's welcome in Ghana. (Globe and Mail -- International)
NHL Draft-A-Paloosa Jun 20, 2008
I wonder if DW reads many George Orwell books ... Stroz - I wonder if DW reads many George Orwell books. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
'I won't watch BB' - Gretel Killeen Jun 18, 2008
" Share this article Also in Television Font size: Email article: Print article: Have Your Say Latest Comments: as i said before, someone needs to drop bb down the loo..that's where s - - t belongs ! Posted by: nutbag of brisbane 11:47am today this show needs to die, george orwell is tired of rolling in his grave Posted by: Toby of Melbourne 3:48am today I have never wanted to watch Big Brother. I think it is just a poor attempt at providing 'Australian content'. Let's hope they finally get the... (Courier Mail)
Record number of illegal immigrants being charged... Jun 18, 2008
Nineteen Eighty-Four (also titled 1984),[1] by George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair), is an English novel about life in an authoritarian regime as lived by Winston Smith, an intellectual worker at the Ministry of Truth. Winston is degraded and psychologically tortured after he is arrested by the thoughtpolice under the instruction of the totalitarian government of Oceania, in the year 1984. (The Drudge Report)
Satire and Cruelty Jun 18, 2008
Satire has been called "punishment for those who deserve it." Writers from Erasmus to Jonathan Swift to George Orwell have used humor, irony and ridicule to expose the follies of the powerful, the failures of blind ideology and the comic weakness of human nature itself. So what is Franken's "provocative, touching and funny" contribution to the genre. (Townhall.com)
Shocked, not awed. Jun 18, 2008
He sounded so awfully good, and behind him, seen but unseen, was all of British intelligence, never wrong and always well-dressed, heirs to a legacy dating back to the East India Company, Gordon in Khartoum, Lawrence in Arabia, Bell in Baghdad, and even George Orwell and Leonard Woolf, serving the empire (and taking notes) in far-off Asia: Bond. James Bond. (Slate)
Barack Obama: Republicans will try to demonise my wife, Michelle Jun 15, 2008
George Orwell once wrote "the catholic and the communist are alike in that they both believe the other to be neither honest nor intelligent". I wonder what modern day intreptation we can apply given some of the comments on this page. (Times Online)
Fighting Crime: On street level Jun 15, 2008
Author George Orwell said it best: "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.". David Cervone. (Florida Times-Union)
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Jun 14, 2008
Other digested reads. John CraceSaturday June 14, 2008. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
More of this story Jun 14, 2008
Perhaps George Orwell was just a little off with the timing of his novel about a totalitarian state, because 24 years later (and 59 years after he wrote it) the current state of political affairs in this country eerily resembles the Orwellian dystopia of 1984. At least, it does to Tim Robbins. (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Tea bag to celebrate its century Jun 13, 2008
Author George Orwell described it as a "mainstay of civilisation". Sara Howe, of Tetley, said: "It's hard to imagine what life would be like without the tea bag.". (Telegraph.co.uk)
* [ LETTERS ] Jun 13, 2008
His statement, along with the many recent opinions that the Olympics not be mixed with politics, remind me of a quote by George Orwell. He said that The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
LETTERS: NCT, June 12, 2008 Jun 13, 2008
" The most used examples are in the cases of Benito Mussolini, and Adolf Hitler. It is a movement defined by the masses believing in a "Messiah", of sorts. A single person who can deliver them from their crises. George Orwell coined the phrase: Liberal Fascism in repsonse to a question, said he perfered a type of "Nanny State. " A kind of "soft" fascism.Today, who most resembles this form, this idea of authoritarian personality? Why.. Barack Obama, of course. Chuck wrote on Jun 12, 2008 9:44... (North County Times)
Google's Street View comes to PB County Jun 13, 2008
1984 George Orwell Google it. Were Becoming a Surveillance Society Just another Example of Us Loosing our rights. (The Palm Beach Post)
Recipe for disaster? Jun 9, 2008
Hungry City is a sinister real-life sequel to Animal Farm with the plot turned upside down by time in ways even George Orwell could not have foreseen. Its key image is the Pig Tower, a 21st-century Dutch invention for producing pork in custom-built city blocks, each 76 floors high, designed to house pigs in comfortable apartments with lavish bedding and ample rootling space on large, open-air balconies. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Why Big Brother represents a return to early Christianity Jun 8, 2008
The original Big Brother society in George Orwell s Nineteen Eighty-Four drew the grim political conclusions of this belief. Everyone is publicly at stake all the time. (Times Online)
Denying tax credits for films would have deep impact on cities ... Jun 7, 2008
The mayor suggested that the bill should have been named C-1984 rather than C-10, a reference to Nineteen Eighty-Four, the George Orwell novel about life in an authoritarian state. Mayor Gerald Tremblay of Montreal told the committee the film industry has been active in his city for 60 years. (Globe and Mail)
Film, TV industries critical to economy: mayors Jun 6, 2008
The mayor, at least in part in jest, suggested that the bill should have been named C-1984 rather than C-10, a reference to the George Orwell book in which the state exercises extreme control over its people. Mayor Gerald Tremblay of Montreal told the committee that the film industry has been active in his city for 60 years and that the industry is worth $1. (Globe and Mail)
Editor’s Mailbag (June 3) Jun 5, 2008
If you haven t already, you ought to read Animal Farm, written by dedicated socialist George Orwell, to see where the pigs would take us. Dan Conway, Albany. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Ten chapters May 25, 2008
When I joined The Observer in 1996, the world of books was in limbo between hot metal and cool word processing, but it would have been recognisable to many of our past contributors, from George Orwell and Cyril Connolly, to Anthony Burgess and Clive James. Everything smelled of the lamp. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Other Voices May 24, 2008
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face." -George Orwell *** It has been 60 years since George Orwell published his novel 1984. Described as political satire, it is, in reality, a political prophecy. (Missouri Valley Times News, IA)
Burmese Daze May 24, 2008
George Orwell would place a good deal of blame on Britain, Burma's colonial overlord from the mid-19th century until 1948. In his 20s, Orwell (n Eric Arthur Blair) served as a policeman in Burma for five years. (Slate)
Summer Reading May 21, 2008
This theory was first espoused by George Orwell in "1984," published in 1949. They have taken the ball and run with it ever since. (Townhall.com)
PB County to get red-light cameras May 21, 2008
Traffic-light cameras on way. Traffic-light cameras on way. (The Palm Beach Post)
Margaret Atwood: Orwell and me May 18, 2008
As the centenary of George Orwell's birth approaches, she says he would have plenty to say about the post-9/11 world ... Shared dystopias: George Orwell and Margaret Atwood ... I grew up with George Orwell. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Behind the masks May 17, 2008
With George Orwell, the patron saint of straight-talking as his guide, David Runciman asks when openness becomes just another form of hypocrisy ... A still from the 1954 film Animal Farm, based on the book by George Orwell ... Enter George Orwell, the great scourge of political hypocrisy and cant, whose name now acts as a kind of shorthand for integrity in the face of the temptations of hypocrisy. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
LETTERS: NCT, May 13, 2008 May 14, 2008
George Orwell would be both proud and terrified. I suggest that others google "REX 84" which makes the scope of the internment camps during WWII seem rather small. (North County Times)
Sluts, bitches and dogs' haircuts: the Mommy wars May 13, 2008
" Ladykrystyna had a that Judas was the right examplewe can only conclude that not many people saw this post, as it could have turned into one mighty long thread, being just the kind of discussion Fraypeople like to get their teeth into.They loved getting their teeth into George Orwell, too, after reading Jeff Greenfield's "" article on elitism and the British socialist, obviously because of the contrast with the complete lack of any class consciousness in U.S. society. This was clearly... (Slate)
Bruce insulted by suggestion that Wigan will roll over May 11, 2008
In the town George Orwell made famous, Ferguson wants a homage to Catalonia: he wants United to play with the same concentration and intensity they showed in tackling another must-win game, against Barcelona in the Champions League semi-final second leg. I have no fears. (Times Online)
PAPER: HOW TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING WAY OUR BRAIN WORKS... May 10, 2008
Would some finally have become more equal than others, as George Orwell always feared. Of course, there are benefits from technical progress - but there are great dangers as well, and I believe that we are seeing some of those today. (The Drudge Report)
Taking a leaf out of their books May 8, 2008
At the start of year 10 at Matraville High School our English teacher, Doris Allen, brought in a box of her books: novels of George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and Evelyn Waugh. These, she said, were not on the curriculum but we were adults and should read them, even if we had to set our alarm clocks an hour earlier every morning. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Thesis My Words: Religion, Separatism, and Elitism May 8, 2008
They loved getting their teeth into George Orwell, too, after reading Jeff Greenfield's "" article on elitism and the British socialist, obviously because of the contrast with the complete lack of any class consciousness in U.S. society. This was clearly demonstrated in any random collection of phrases: "" came from jwschmidt; "lex talionis in the land of NASCAR"thank you ; "you never explained what arugula was", complaining to jwschmidt, above. (Slate)
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Some fats, to paraphrase George Orwell, are more equal than others, and whatever you call it, belly fat is bad. The Old View: Fat just sits there like a stuffed storage bin. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
Bush is no Truman May 6, 2008
Published - Tuesday, May 06, 2008. Who controls the past, controls the future: Who controls the present controls the past. (Winona Daily News, MN)
In praise of pacifism May 3, 2008
As George Orwell said in 1941, his contemporaries had to choose between two evils: "You can let the Nazis rule the world; that is evil; or you can overthrow them by war, which is also evil." The lesser evil was to fight. Paradoxically, though, there is no denying the moral courage and noble purpose of many conscientious objectors. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Viewpoint: The dubious 'popular vote' May 2, 2008
With apologies to George Orwell, all states are equal, but some are more equal than others. Overall, though, this game is pointless since both Clinton and Obama have won states critically important to a Democratic electoral college majority in November. (BBC News -- Americas)
'JIHAD' NEWSPEAK May 2, 2008
It would have made George Orwell laugh - or cry. . (New York Post -- Opinions)
Stop Apologizing for Being an American May 2, 2008
Much more importantly, we saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of American soldiers who had risked their lives to protect their country and free the world from the Nazi/Japanese vision of the future, which was as George Orwell described it, a "boot stamping on a human face - forever." ... Much more importantly, we saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of American soldiers who had risked their lives to protect their country and free the world from the Nazi/Japanese vision of the future,... (Townhall.com)
On Your Mind May 2, 2008
George Orwell wrote a very interesting little book called Animal Farm. It s about a society of pigs who did a farm job. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Obama and Orwell May 2, 2008
By Jeff GreenfieldPosted Thursday, May 1, 2008, at 6:19 PM ET George Orwell ... There's also an even older and more illuminating antecedent from across the Atlantic: the writings of George Orwell in England in the late 1930s, which describe a version of elitism that echoes powerfully in our current political battle ... But if you want to court these voters in a way that will resonate with them, you could do a lot worse than heeding the cautionary words of George Orwell. (Slate)
City Council, video cams, and George Orwell May 2, 2008
George Orwell's story might actually become a prediction if Lodi's City Council spends our money on live streaming cameras. This could lead to more and more cameras in every part of Lodi. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
China tries to teach Tibet a lesson that the Apr 22, 2008
What is happening in Tibet is reminiscent of the George Orwell s classic 1984. Remember the Ministry of Truth, thought police, hate week campaigns, newspeak such as ignorance is strength or freedom is slavery or war is peace, and so on. (Times Online)
US honors those who fought in Spanish Civil War Apr 21, 2008
Generations of Americans were introduced to the passion that fueled that conflict by George Orwell, Pablo Neruda, and others. "No men ever entered earth more honorably than those who died in Spain," went one of Hemingway's best remembered lines about the war. (Fresno Bee -- State)
JT's fate tied to first pick Apr 20, 2008
A week from now, Jason Taylor s future with the Dolphins should come into focus. The report that won t go away. (The Palm Beach Post)
New system uses fingerprints to dole out school lunch Apr 17, 2008
Several parents expressed concern to WSHS principal John Phelps about the program, saying it invoked images of George Orwell s novel 1984, in which a government tightly controlled citizens personal lives. They objected to the district creating a fingerprint database of students, wondered why the current system was no longer adequate and asked why they weren t notified the program was going to be tested. (Winona Daily News, MN)
Waugh at the BBC: 'the most ill-natured interview ever' on CD after 55 years Apr 15, 2008
The holy grail though, is a man who worked for the BBC, but seems to have evaded the archivists: George Orwell. "It's very odd that there's no recording. If anyone finds one, please do let us know," said Cleary. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Revealed: How plot to kidnap PM ended with a beer for abductors Apr 15, 2008
He was educated at Eton, where one of his classmates was George Orwell, and then at Christ Church, Oxford. Sir Alec became the Scottish Unionist Party MP for Lanark in 1931. (Scotsman)
Writing Great Persuasive Papers Apr 12, 2008
In his essay George Orwell noted the intimate relationship between writing and thinking: [The English language] becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The point is that the process is reversible. (Suite101.com)
Letters for Saturday, April 12, 2008 Apr 12, 2008
George Orwell must be dancing in his grave. Bettejo Dux Kalaheo. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
