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Occupation: The Inconvenient Truth About Iraq

May 3, 2007 – 11:31 am

From George Lakoff’s new essay Occupation: The Inconvenient Truth About Iraq: “It is time to tell an inconvenient truth about Iraq: it is an occupation, not a war. In wars, armies fight to dominate land. The US won the war three years ago when Bush said, ‘Mission Accomplished.’ Then the occupation started, and our troops [...]

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What I Learned During the Week of January 22-28

January 27, 2006 – 09:41 pm

Last Friday, I introduced a new feature here on Fluid Imagination called Gobbledygook. The Gobbledygook posts are a catch-all for the things I’ve learned over the past week. So, why don’t we get started?
Here’s what I learned this week…

…from moving pictures:

That the tragedy of Malcolm X is not that he was killed, but that he [...]

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George Lakoff is a liberal, goshdarnit!

October 14, 2004 – 02:44 pm

[Originally Posted on the old Fluid Imagination site]
Though George Lakoff attempts to be ideologically impartial throughout most of Moral Politics, he is a confessed liberal who feels there is scientific research to support his politics. The evidence suggests that:

The Nurturant Parent model is superior to the Strict Father model as a method of childrearing.

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