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A TALK WITH GEORGE LAKOFF

I recently made note of a Lakoff piece about Republicans & Democrats. I keep crossing paths with this man's words. I read Metaphors We Live By in college. It had a very substantial impact on me and my work in artificial intelligence.

The Coup's Ride the Fence

reminds me quite a bit of Consolidated.

My State of the Union Delusion

"My friends, we have everything we need to win this war—we just have to summon the strength, the spirit and the drive that have defined the turning points of this great nation."

Bush Must Be Stopped.

He will destroy this nation before he is done.

As I Watch My Ant Farm

busily preparing for the arrival of the queen I realize in a flash what we are doing here. There is much work to be done. Excavations cover our little cyberspace. When will the queen arrive? Will she make use of our infrastructure? Do ants concern themselves with this self doubt? Is the queen ever non-plussed?

We Always Need

Glamazons with problems.

Islam, Irigaray, and the Retrieval of Gender

Islamic theology confronts us with the spectacular absence of a gendered Godhead. A theology which reveals the divine through incarnation in a body also locates it in a gender, and inescapably passes judgement on the other sex. A theology which locates it in a book makes no judgement about gender; since books are unsexed. The divine remains divine, that is, genderless, even when expressed in a fully saving way on earth.

All In The Family

Someone tell them that the SOUTH LOST THE WAR! One big happy family my ass!

Boys Will Be Boys - Gender Identity Issues

I have been asked to offer some comments on gender identity issues as these impact on Muslims living in post-traditional contexts in the West, and particularly as they affect people who have traded up to the Great Covenant of Islam after an upbringing in Judaism or Christianity.

Mr. Murad may have something of interest to say about boys and the work of Germaine Greer but to be honest I don't care. I take with grains of salt those who identify as Christians or Jews if they conjoin that with the truth or accuracy of their opinion. Mr. Murad has done that here and yet also had the temerity to say "trade-up?"

I wonder, does this religion come with an arrogance quotient?

Astroturf Doesn't Belong Just to the Republicans.

On the to-do list today.