"Republican National Committee Chairman Mike Duncan said the team of nearly two dozen staffers at the opposition headquarters will be "fact-checking" statements made by the Obama campaign and by speakers during the convention ( Read more... )

( 43. PH34R MY INT3LL3CT )

By contrast, here's Orwell writing decades before the organic and slow food movements, not to mention globalisation ( Read more... )

More from George Orwell, who can feel one of his moods coming on ( Read more... )

"Nancy poets"! (Not to mention "fashionable pansies".) I want to have a character called that in something.

Our mate Kyla once wisely said that there were books you wanted to read and books you wanted to have read. I puzzled over this for a long time, but fighting to get through Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow and then having trouble putting down George Orwell's A Clergyman's Daughter brought the meaning home to me ( Read more... )

Last night: read Orwell's 1945 essay Antisemitism in Britain. He pointed out that rather than ending irrational and mean-spirited feelings towards Jews, Hitler had just driven those feelings underground: everyone had convinced themselves that they're not an anti-semite, since that would be an irrational thing to be. Orwell suggests we start with ( Read more... )