On This Day
In 1950 Eric Arthur Blair died in a hospital in London from tuberculosis.
Born on the 25th of June, 1903 in Motihari, India where his father was in the British civil service, he would be educated at Eton, and then fight in the Spanish Civil War. He probably contracted the disease that eventually killed while fighting in Spain.
He was a member of the BBC World Service, on the India desk. During the war he developed a deep dislike for the censorship caused by the war, and used that experience as the background for his last novel.
If you have listened to much of the output from the Bush administration you may have invoked Mr. Blair’s novel. Of course, you probably know him by his pen name: George Orwell.
January 21, 2005 Comments Off on On This Day
Tinker Bell
January 21, 2005 Comments Off on Tinker Bell
Things To See
Go over to the Beeb and read this story. If you understand why this happened, you might be ready to become an investor. If you think that the story is absurd, then you will understand why you might want to avoid the stock market.
Vaara has a link to an ad that is upsetting some people. Don’t go if you are easily offended or don’t like to wait for .mov files, but if you remember National Lampoon‘s VW ad about Ted Kennedy you should just go.
Maru wonders if Bush remembers that this is his second inauguration. [My browser put me at the bottom of the post, so you may have to scroll up to see it].
January 21, 2005 Comments Off on Things To See
