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Reading matters (Free subscription) | yesterday
Fiction - paperback; Tivoli; 352 pages; 2004. If you ever needed proof that I have rather eclectic reading tastes, then this review coming directly after W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four should do it. Admittedly, I read Everyone's Got A Bono Story on my sick bed; my mind couldn't settle on anything and I was looking for something completely fluffy, something that...
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Teacher Dude's Grill and BBQ (Free subscription) | yesterday
War is peace - new strategic approach to Afghan conflict , originally uploaded by Teacher Dude's BBQ . George Orwell - 1984
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Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | yesterday
Antony Beevor has written both novels and non-fiction. His new book is D-Day: The Battle for Normandy.For the Wall Street Journal, he named a five best list of works of fiction about World War II.One title on the list:Catch-22by Joseph HellerSimon & Schuster, 1961"Catch-22" is probably the most devastating satire ever written about the lunacy of war and military bureaucracy. Set in Italy...
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Augustine in Carthage (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thoughts on Alessandro Porco’s Augustine in Carthage and Other Poems (ECW Press, 2008) by Jean-Christophe Cloutier Like most books of poetry, Augustine in Carthage And Other Poems deals with beauty, quotidian existence, and the human spirit. Unlike most contemporary books of poetry, this one does it with flair, novelty, and—that rare thing— a genuine absence of haughtiness or pretension....
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Hot Air (Free subscription) | yesterday
The cloture vote to enable debate, amendments, and assorted Senatorial nonsense on a bill that would revamp 15% of the American economy and put it under the federal thumb has been scheduled for this evening at 8 pm ET, but the debate on the debate has already begun ... and ...
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Sanguine et Purpure (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)
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Hemmings Auto Blogs (Free subscription) | yesterday
* Jeep never made a stepside CJ-based pickup, correct. The Scrambler was a fleetside, unibody (that is, cab and bed were integrated, not body and frame) pickup. But some enterprising Southern California dealer did build a stepside CJ-based pickup in the 1970s and called it the Gaucho. Now Jeepforum member jscherb has set about replicating [...]
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Netizen News Brief (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Subject: txt bbro sclm grn bdd - We're from the government and we're here to bleed you dry. More George Orwell where are you? Here is the headline in my local newspaper today: "Mercury Removal from T.F. [Twin Falls, Idaho] Apartment complex results in $50,000 bill." That's right - fifty grand. Two ounces of mercury were found in the road that leads into an apartment complex. It cost local,...
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The Snooper Report (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Obama's Indecision Absolutely. Obama's indecision. I have written on this many times and Kent Blackwell at American Thinker says this: "Cost of indecision about Afghanistan is mounting." That's not a headline in Human Events, or some conservative blog. It's the title of a column by the dean of liberal Washington pundits, David Broder. Even David Broder is concerned about President Obama's...
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DANEgerus (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
"We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night... ...to visit violence on those who would do us harm." -- George Orwell(?) 11/20/2009 1:13:00 AM23500By... DANEgerusBarack Hussein Obama... doesn't think we should "rush to judgment" when Hasan the Jihadist shot up Fort Hood... won't wear a flag pin... won't salute America's flag... won't say the pledge... apologizes...
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drew3000 (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Chris Crites paints with acrylic on brown paper bags. It’s a really cool collection. This was is titled “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.” – George Orwell. The image he used here was found on flickr, posted by posted by Nigel Parry and used under [...]
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BookLust (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Rosie's Riveters is a weekly posting written by Booklust readers about riveting females in literature. Many readers have strong reactions to the women in the books they read- either very positive or very negative. These are the characters we find riveting, for good reasons or bad ones, and they form the population of Rosie's Riveters. Through this weekly post, we can discuss females we love to hate,...
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Politics in the Zeros (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
From their home page “Democratic Green Socialist is a bi-monthly online magazine for socialism, independence, the environment and peace. ‘For those who think outside the box.’” “Socialism Yes – Egon, No” – Banner at the Alexandraplatz demonstration, 1989, (Egon Krenz had succeeded Erich Honecker as the last leader of communist East Germany) “In...
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Nadia Marques de Carvalho | 26/09/2009
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” George Orwell After 30 years of a harsh, totalitarian and dogmatic Islamic theocracy, the June 12 th elections in Iran have provided a platform for people, for the first time, to voice their opinion on not only the vacuum of democracy but also criticise how Islam is being used as a veneer for this abusive, austere and autocratic...
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Fascinating contention, Nadia! I very much enjoyed it! And I agree: false binary between moderates and extremists. On a different, more provocative...
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