Monday, February 18, 2008  Wingnut Scattergories.  (A phrase I
lifted from somewhere, but can't remember where.)  From
“Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell:  “What was slightly
horrible, was that from the stream of sound that poured out of
his mouth it was almost impossible to distinguish a single word.
Just once Winston caught a phrase - " complete and final
elimination of Goldsteinism " - jerked out very rapidly and, as
it seemed, all in one piece, like a line of type cast solid.
He might be denouncing Goldstein and demanding sterner measures
against thought-criminals and saboteurs, he might be fulminating
against the atrocities of the Eurasian army, he might be
praising Big Brother or the heroes on the Malabar front - it
made no difference. Whatever it was, you could be certain that
every word of it was pure orthodoxy, pure Ingsoc.”  And that is
precisely where 30 years of absolutely tireless, relentless,
shameless Conservative lying and slander has left us; with a
segment of the population numbed to