Bookworm on Feb 08 2013 | Filed under: Education
Tweet Actually, two things to get your Friday off to a good start (or, if you’re not on the West Coast, to brighten whatever part of the day or night you’re currently enjoying). The first riffs off of the “So God made a farmer” Super Bowl commercial: And the second, which requires about 25 minutes [...]
Bookworm on Jan 21 2013 | Filed under: Barack Obama
Tweet George Orwell, 1984: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH Nancy Pelosi, on the unreasonableness of the democratic legislature process: But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of controversy. Barack Obama, on the occasion of his 2nd inauguration: [...]
Bookworm on May 08 2012 | Filed under: Health
Tweet George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the best and most important books ever written. This is not hyperbole. It’s as close as one can ever get to an objective statement about a novel. In addition to Orwell’s lean, elegant prose, it is impossible to imagine a more insightful or prescient book about the [...]
Bookworm on Jan 31 2012 | Filed under: Religion
Tweet Barbara Boxer has taken to the pages of the Huffington Post to explain why the administration’s mandate that all insurers provide birth control, including drugs that induce abortion, advances rather than restricts, religious freedom. If you like Orwell’s Newspeak, Boxer’s writing is a thing of beauty and will certainly be a joy forever as [...]
Bookworm on Jan 28 2012 | Filed under: African-Americans, Race
Tweet Despite the fact that Republicans are currently busy working the circular firing squad, making outside efforts to destroy them somewhat redundant, the Progressives/Democrats/Media/Usual Suspects aren’t taking any chances about the November 2012 election and have already brought out the big gun: They’re crying racism. The racism claim that got the biggest headline this week [...]
Bookworm on Jan 08 2010 | Filed under: Education
Tweet I’m having a minor mid-life crisis. I’ve been a practicing lawyer for almost 23 years now. I’m quite good at what I do, but I hate it. And lately, it’s been getting harder and harder to flog myself into getting the work done and meeting the deadlines. (Although I should assure any current or [...]
Bookworm on Jul 24 2009 | Filed under: Democrats, Free speech
Tweet Orwell understood the totalitarian mindset. That’s why he invented Newspeak, a language with the specific goal of making anti-governmental thought impossible. The Wikipedia article on the subject sums it up nicely: Newspeak is a fictional language in George Orwell‘s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the novel, it is described as being “the only language in [...]
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