From the New York Times, the following is a resignation letter from an executive vice president at AIG: Dear Mr. Liddy, It is with deep regret that I submit my notice of resignation from A.I.G. Financial Products. I hope you take the time to read this entire letter. Before describing the details of my decision, [...]

This is amazing and scary. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has decided that she doesn’t like the word “terrorism.” Instead, according to Newsmax, she prefers the term “man-caused disaster”: Instead of referring to threats from terrorists, Janet Napolitano is referring in her speeches to “man-caused disasters.” In an interview, a reporter for Germany’s Spiegel Online [...]

Remember the “two-minute hate” in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four? Here is an accurate description of it from Wikipedia: In George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Two Minutes Hate (more properly, “Two Minutes’ Hate” or “Two-Minute Hate”) is a daily period in which Party members of the society of Oceania must watch a film depicting The Party’s enemies (notably Emmanuel Goldstein and his [...]