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Tag Archives: 1984
The Kindle, George Orwell, and the Future of Censorship?
Electronic books just got more creepy. Earlier in the summer, Amazon.com unceremoniously removed (remotely) “unauthorized” copies of George Orwell’s 1984 from people’s Kindles. Amazon customers had purchased copies of the electronic book through the Amazon store, and they thought that … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, books, censorship, electronic books, kindle, Orwell
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Orwellism Watch: Biologist Jerry Coyne Takes Down Robert Wright a Peg
Atheist biologist Jerry Coyne, in his recent review for the New Republic of Robert Wright’s new book, The Evolution of God, catches Wright out on an Orwellian euphemism that Wright deploys to describe Islamic historical setbacks on the road to greater tolerance: … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, atheism, atheist, biology, evolution, George Orwell, jerry coyne, orwellisms, religion, robert wright, skepticism
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Jeff Bezos’s Orwellian Treatment of George Orwell’s 1984
The potentially Orwellian implications of the Kindle here.
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Tagged 1984, Amazon, George Orwell, jeff bezos, kindle, Orwell, totalitarianism
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Sarah Palin’s Orwellian Mind: She Can’t Call Things What They Are, and Words Can Shift Their Meaning Whenever They Are Useful to Her
Gail Collins caught these two Sarah Palin resignation speech Orwellisms this week: “It would be apathetic to just hunker down and ‘go with the flow.’ Nah, only dead fish ‘go with the flow.’ No. Productive, fulfilled people determine where to … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, freedom is slavery, George Orwell, James Dobson, orwellisms, rush limbaugh, Sarah Palin, war is peace
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EVERY Knee Shall Bow and Every Tongue Confess—Christmas?: Santa Abolishes “Happy Holidays” Once and For ALL
Bill O’Reilly wins the War on Christmas:
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Tagged 1984, authoritarianism, Bill O'Reilly, Christmas, comedy, George Orwell, holiday cheer, humor, santa clause, Stalinism, the war on christmas, totalitarianism
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Prometheus Unbound 