Wow. And this guy is a Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences.

Maybe from now on we should label "Professors of Linguistics and Cognitive Sciences" as "Human beings possessing less than average intellectual capabilities" or maybe just "Borderline Retarded".

These semantic changes won't fool smart conservatives like you and me. But then again, who says most liberals are smart?

I suggest we rename the Democratic Party something else.

I don't know what else. I'm not funny. I'm simply throwing that out there, for a poll.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

Well George Bush calls tax cuts tax Relief. Republicans do the same thing. Pro Choice is now Pro Abortion. It's all bullshit.

"Pro-Choice" could be pro-infant murder. It is "pro-abortion" - because that is what they are advocating. NOT choices...because regardless of abortion, women have MANY choices (birth control, abstinance, adoption, or parenthood.) Sounds like choices to me. Anyhoo, this is a silly silly aritcle because people already do this. When I was preggo with my first (and no insurance, a Grad student) - I went to planned parenthood ... and guess what? They told me they couldn't do anything for me, because they don't do "pregnancy." (oops, sorry, didn't mean to steal this - I actually had a totally different point to make ... it's gone now.)

> I suggest we rename the Democratic Party something else.

How about something that conveys a positive message of reconciliation, tolerance, and temperate humility... maybe something like "The Reality-Based Community." Yeah, that oughta do it.

And to think that the Michael Moore wing of the Democratic Party is always pulling the "1984" accusation on US...

1. A good name for the Democratic Party would be the Care Bear Party. Because they care, they're cute and cuddly, they like smiles and sunshine more than scowls and dark clouds, and they use happiness to drive away evil.

2. Chris Grant, so-called pro-choicers have more disdain for actual choice than Michael Moore has for combs and shampoo. The baby that gets chopped to pieces inside the womb will never make a choice. Ever.

And the woman (okay, usually girl) who made the CHOICE to have unprotected sex can CHOOSE (as Carin points out) many other options, including adoption.

Roe v. Wade is a great example of the judiciary taking CHOICE away from people. Overturn that judicial monstrosity, and people can CHOOSE (through democratically elected leaders) to protect abortion, but as long as it's in place, choice is impossible.

What a fantastic example of how the left has already redefined terms to try to change reality.

Lisa Simpson had (will have?) this idea as President, calling a tax hike a "temporary refund adjustment."

I'm renaming Lakoff " a vinegar and water solution used to combat that not-so-fresh feeling."

Actually, I'm all for a "baby tax". With my school taxes going through the roof to support families who dump their kids with a grandparent here, but actually live and work somewhere else (usually New York City or Philadelphia) so that their kids don't have to be condemned to the "Public School System" in their big-city socialist utopia, I'm sick of it.

As part of the intiiative, Michael Moore will be digitally altered to look like Kim Richards in all his movies and TV appearances.

Lakoff is a pathetic joke. He repeatedly says things that give force to the expression "so stupid, only an academic could believe it."

He had one big (obvious) idea in the 60's that he has milked ever since. His Hugely Importantly Theory is this: that people use metaphors to structure their thinking about concepts.

Yeah, that's right. People use metaphors. When they think about concepts! I know, I never would've guessed, either.

Lakoff is also the tool who wrote a typically retarded paper soon after 9/11 arguing that the reason the event was so traumatic for the country was because the towers were a national phallic symbol that, contrary to its metaphoric role, had been "penetrated" by the planes.

Well, I don't know about you, but I certainly wince and grab my crotch every time I watch that scene replayed on the news. Cuz like, it surely didn't have anything to do with the fact that sicko terrorists had attacked our home and killed 3,000 fellow citizens. Nope. Not at all.

DEMOCRAPOMATIC does it for me

Yeah, and the democrats didn't "lose", they "secured the non-majority demographic".

Classic, Jack.

If I have to hear one more Democrat applying salve to their humiliating defeat by pointing out how many votes they got, I'm just going to pee myself laughing.

Sobek, I agree for the most part. I'm not pro choice or pro abortion or whatever it's called these days. I'm not in favor of abortion. I'm making the point that both parties use "branding" to sully the waters. I think we should write down as many labels as each party uses. I think we'd come to some pretty startling conclusions about how psychology is employed to drive votes. Chris

I don't think there's anything startling about it. Politicians speak to the lowest common denominator because they live and die by votes.