what are your “favorite” weasel words?
I am particularly enraged by “PATRIOT Act,” which was anything but patriotic, and which set us on the path of “Homeland Security” and “Total Information Awareness”…
1984
like if George Orwell wrote Life on Mars
Or if Monty Python wrote 1984…
question of the weekend: What word or phrase would you eliminate from the English language, and why?
Perhaps there’s a word or phrase that no longer serves the purpose it once did, or some otherwise innocuous words have been twisted in shapes they shouldn’t have been…
QOTD: Has pop culture given us an unrealistic idea of what a police state looks like?
While many people would likely agree that films such as 1984 and Brazil are horrifying depictions of police states — and they are — relatively few people seem bothered by the realities we’re living with today…
Priest (review)
Hey! It’s a supernatural horror flick about the clash between the power of the institution of The Church and the power of personal faith and belief. Oh, and also about kicking vampire ass.
Friday night fortune cookie: Winston Smith says…
“The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labor. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.”
Never Let Me Go movie review: ordinary people
I’ve come to realize recently that there’s something more chilling, more eerie than a fictional dystopian world: a fictional dystopian world in which no one understands they’re living in a dystopia.
“amusing ourselves to death”: why many won’t care about the loss of Net neutrality… but why we must
We as a society are in danger of drowing under not a flow of information but a flow of entertainment…
The International (review)
Corruption! High finance! Political murder! Clive Owen!
V for Vendetta movie review: trickster in a garden of evil
I still can’t get my head around how profoundly awed and moved and overwhelmed and terrorized and rejuvenated I am by this movie.
