bush is Big Brother

After reading this frontpage story in the New York Times I can barely contain myself this morning. It is essentially about muzzling a much respected scientist at NASA and his concerns about global warming. We keep hearing that bush and cheney are anti science, and this pretty much is a smoking gun that proves it. bush really is "Big Brother" as I had always feared. He now has his hacks running interference against the news media at NASA.

You sometimes wonder if anyone cares about this kind of thing. I am ever hopeful that the public is waking up. I see a metaphor where the public is in bed and the alarm goes off. They stir and then hit the snooze button, and then twenty minutes later the alarm sounds again and once again the snooze button is used. Eventually, they will wake up and become aware. Hope Springs Eternal!

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell