So that's what was wrong with them…

Who Framed George Lakoff? – ChronicleReview.com … which argues that liberals have clung to the false belief that people think in a conscious, logical, and unemotional manner and that this belief has doomed Democrats’ chances with voters.

Want to read!

If you saw me with my Amazon Kindle, you’d suspect that I didn’t like buying books now that don’t fit on it. However, there are out there vast seas of books not yet Kindle-ized, some of which I very much do want to read, one of them inspired by a Kindle-ized book I am currently Continue reading Want to read!

Post-heroic?

Patrick Porter, over at OxBlog, writes us a very thoughtful essay about what sort of society we live in — post-heroic, or…? Not to mention, the implications thereof, which spill over into Hollywood. OxBlog POST-HEROIC? I’ve always been a little uneasy with the notion that we in the West wage post-heroic war because we live Continue reading Post-heroic?

Beatrix wakes up

Beatrix wakes up. She has taken to snuggling me all night, so she gets firmly embedded in a blanket. But she is definitely not a morning type of dog. Neither am I (not a dog, at least, and not a morning person, definitely.)