“Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.” George Orwell, from “1984”, 1949 April 5, 2016 – Global scallop supply limited in 2016, but… Read more »
‘Come, Watson, come!’ he cried. ‘The game is afoot. Not a word! Into your clothes and come!’ Sherlock Holmes from “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange”, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1904 July 28, 2014 – Mysterious Fungus Threatens Frogs September 10, 2016 – The origin of the… Read more »
“You know my methods. Apply them.” Sherlock Holmes, from “The Sign of the Four“, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1890 January 30, 2014 – Russia’s Love Affair With Vodka Lures Many To An Early Grave May 13, 2015 – Russia is quite literally drinking itself to death June… Read more »
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” Sherlock Holmes, from “The Hound of the Baskervilles“, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1902 It’s April, 2018, and Nature is booming and burgeoning to a level not seen in my lifetime. Since… Read more »
“Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty.” George Orwell, from “1984”, 1949 January 7, 2018 – “This is not… Read more »
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.” George Orwell, from “1984”, 1949. Tout: to praise or publicize lavishly and often excessively. To attempt to sell (something), typically by pestering people in an aggressive or bold manner. April 1, 2018 – CPD releases March crime… Read more »
“Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.” George Orwell, from “1984”, 1949 It’s April 2018, and the Great Artificial Drought has been broken by the slow, steady, widespread and ever-increasing distribution of simple, inexpensive Orgonite devices in the vicinity of the weather… Read more »
“I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.” Sherlock Holmes, from “The Three Gables”, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1926 It’s April, 2018, and Nature is booming and burgeoning to a level not seen in my lifetime. Since… Read more »
“Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no… Read more »
‘You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.’ Sherlock Holmes, from “A Scandal in Bohemia“, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1891 It’s April, 2018, and crime rates around the globe are dropping to their lowest levels in history. The words “mystery”,… Read more »