Tuesday, September 7, 2004
Still looking forward to reading about it
If there's one class I wish I could audit at Berkeley, it would be Linguistics 290L, with George Lakoff. (Scroll down, or do a find command to locate it.)
Here's George on the "War on Terror" and other catchprhases.
Better news
In Paying for others' sins, Britt Blaser has a long and thoughtful piece about What Can Be Done in response to Beslan and other bad events in the world. Good News is actionable, he says.
In a semi-related matter, I've been told that Yo'av Karni, who participated in this PBS News Hour exchange about Beslan, has a weblog (in Hebrew). A Journey to the Caucasus in Quest of Memory is his book, which, among other things, tries to make some kind of sense about Chechnya.