Saturday, April 18, 2009

Morning Thread

A few Parsons will fit in with the Uriah Heeps of the GOP:

Parsons was Winston’s fellow-employee at the Ministry of Truth. He was a fattish but active man of paralysing stupidity, a mass of imbecile enthusiasms—one of those completely unquestioning, devoted drudges on whom, more even than on the Thought Police, the stability of the Party depended.