Orwell

Feckless Chapter 2: Albany County Legislature is Clumsy or Slick?

March 20, 2012 County Government

You have got to be kidding me! Well, you could be kidding me or you could be kidding me. Or us. The leadership of the Albany County Legislature has rushed past feckless to either a clumsy attempt at deception or a really slick effort at self-defeat. Or perhaps they really can’t see past the next […]

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Orwell on Political Language

March 19, 2012 Politics

Something tells me that this will be a good week to start with a reminder from Orwell: Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. George Orwell, Why I Write, 1946

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Quote of the Day

June 3, 2011 Quote of the Day

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle” — George Orwell

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