Mark Drolette

Don’t even start calling things Bushian

By Mark Drolette

I’m sick of lefties snidely comparing the grim totalitarian society of George Orwell’s 1984 to today’s freedom-spewing United States, a country few Americans would dare call dystopian, even if they could define it. The following analysis exposes these aspersions as utterly specious.

Unfounded, even.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. These are the best-known examples of 1984’s “doublespeak,” the deliberate misuse of deceptive language. Some may proffer George W. Bush calculatingly utilizes doublespeak but I say no.

Love it or leave it? You don’t have to tell me twice

By Mark Drolette

Yet another 4th of July approaches, a holiday on which we all commemorate America’s big, shiny image of itself by emulating what it does best:

Spend lots of money to blow shit up.

It appears this’ll be my last opportunity to celebrate independence. No, I’m not dying, or getting married again. (Redundant. Sorry.)

Nope. I’m moving to Costa Rica.

Why Costa Rica?