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Students at the University of Heidelberg take a
break from their studies while smoking opium.
From Before Prohibition: Images from the preprohibition
era when many psychotropic substances were legally
available in America and Europe.
Via Boing Boing.

WAR IS PEACE
Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949
“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.” George W. Bush, June 18, 2002
George Orwell’s classic novel was published fifty-seven years ago today. There’s little reason to remind anyone of its prescience or the ubiquity of the neologisms Orwell invented; examples like [...]