George Lakoff
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Linguistic Categories / Women, fire, and dangerous things
divisions, which go way beyond the two or three so-called genders, are extremely thought-provoking. Thinking Outside the Boxes George Lakoff’s 1987 book Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal about the Mind takes this notion of linguistic from Interesting Thing of the Day Read more »
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The GOP hates itself
curious. of libertarianism. I just substitute John Birch society in my mind and that keeps me from ever being seduced. George Lakoff in his "The Little Blue Book" states, "For conservatives, democracy is about liberty, individual responsibility and self-reliance from Daily Kos Read more »
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Why the GOP Says They Are Ready to Throw Down
Democrats in fixing selected appropriations levels when the continuing resolution runs out next month. Ed Kilgore and George Lakoff have a couple of well-stated insights on why the now dominant right flank of the GOP is making positive noises about bringing from Democratic Strategist Read more »
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George Lakoff: Why Ultra-Conservatives Like the Sequester
Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz, Robert Reich and other major economists have pointed out that the deficit is not an urgent economic problem and that, to the contrary, the economy would be helped by an increase in public investment and harmed by drastic cuts. T from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Lakoff: Obama's SOTU Framed Moral Vision, Shamed GOP
president's messaging has matured and he is rising to the challenge of his times. Posted by staff on February 15, 2013 2:04 PM George Lakoff's HuffPo post "How the State of the Union Worked" credits President Obama with an exceptionally lucid and compelling from Democratic Strategist Read more »
