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Newspeak of the Day

Mark Bennett | December 31, 2008

I went to visit a client at the “IAH Adult Detention Facility” (which I thought was a private jail) in Livingston, Texas today and was greeted by a sign at the front desk with a globe logo and the legend, “Community Education Centers”:

Apparently my client isn’t incarcerated; he’s just being educated.
(Because someone will inevitably find [...]