White noise
I want to take a brief respite from Giants baseball to address world events. I am writing my thesis on George Orwell. Let me sum up every news conference I have seen over the past three weeks on everything from Libya to the nuclear plant problem in Japan to the labor strife in Wisconsin with this quote from Orwell's 1946 essay, "Poetics and the English Language."
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's dedicated aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink."
