Body Cameras
Seriously: just about every public official ought to be wearing them — with the public being able to randomly view interactions.
Politics
Alternative Fats
Heh heh heh.
Newspeak Ain’t All Bad
“Newspeak” was the language mandated by the totalitarian state ruled by “the Party” in the world of Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Newspeak is a controlled language, of restricted grammar and limited vocabulary, a linguistic design meant to limit the freedom of thought.
Father, I Cannot Tell a Lie
There’s a lot more about the George Washington “Cannot tell a lie” story taught it American schools. Such as: it’s a total lie.
Death and Taxes
And what do you know: the world is a lot less civilized than in his time. Holmes retired from the Court at the age of 90 years, making him the oldest Justice in the Supreme Court’s history. No, that’s not the “death” part of the title. See yesterday’s item for that.
Build the Wall
“I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church & State.” –President Thomas Jefferson, January 1802
George Orwell on ‘Alternative Facts’
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” —Orwell in 1984
The Smartest Protestor
Purportedly taken at the Washington D.C. Women’s March yesterday.
Why You Still Feel Poor
Source: Oxfam, as reported at the start of the January 2017 World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
President Trump: The Inauguration (TV Listing)
Written by Damien Love, published in the Scotland Herald, 14 Jan 2017.