... After the technical achievement of Babe, it was inevitable that “talking animal” effects would be applied to the serious themes of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. A bitterly satirical indictment of Stalinist Russia and ... cites superior intelligence as his right to superiority. This tyrannical reign destroys the farm’s stability, and the film–decidedly not for ...

Today we went on a field trip to Fairbank Animal Farm in Edmonds with Melissa T., a friend from the Seattle HRC and others. Photo #1: Pig drinking from a faucet, #2 partial group shot, #3 Tom ... 4 group shot, #5 lil' piggies, #6 a turban pumpkin. Seeing all these cute farm animals make me want to avoid bacon and be a more devout vegetarian again. After that, we ...

... finished re-reading George Orwell’s classic, “Animal Farm” last night and hated leaving all those magnificent characters.  The book was required reading for me in a high school English ... is the VP, all the guard dogs are the administration czars and the farm animals/taxpayers are doing all the work and not seeing the rewards. Anyone else see a connection? PS &# ...

Animal Farm - George Orwell I've always admired Orwell but perhaps felt I was too old for this, it being one of a great number of books almost everyone read when they were 12 and ... back; the level of treachery between these 'comrades' clearly knows no bounds. The Manor farm beasts remind one surprisingly well of how much (or how little) one remembers of A-Level history, and the ...

In Animal Farm, George Orwell mentioned how all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. I wonder if there is some sort of transition that one can embark upon to become more equal, genetics aside. I will write a piece on this when I get to the greener side of the fence.

Joe and John over at Animal Farm note what goes around comes around I guess. Maybe an adjoining site for Iraqi guards to practice with AK47s can be found too? Savanna seems to attract that kind of interest.So there's irony No. 1. The Department of Defense was ready to hand over land for a state prison in the 1990s that could now end up being sold to the federal ...