Mark Fiore's brilliant animated cartoon speaks volumes about the way language is being abused by the present administration. Granted, "newspeak" is at least as old as Leif Erikson naming an icy island, "Greenland" in order to encourage more settlers. But the present use and efffects of Bushian newspeak are so constant and ubiquitous that I'm not sure those of us who are looking for it can even see all of it. Anyway, take a look at Fiore's cartoon and laugh so you don't cry.

Three cheers for Arcata, CA! One small step for a local community, one giant leap for freedom of speech in the USA. Read more about Arcata, and numerous other communities across the country that find the Patriot Act to be an attack on the very values for which we are supposedly waging war: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64173-2003Apr20.html