Put these together in your mind:

For those interested in cognitive linguistics etc., an interesting superposition of articles:

Appealing to Our Lizard Brains
By Arianna Huffington,
http://www.alternet.org/election04/20168/

Call it ludicrous, but the most important election of our lifetime is coming
down to who can best pacify the electorate's inner baby.

New Lenses for your Frames
By George Lakoff
http://www.georgelakoff.com/LivingWage.pdf
An Analysis of the Framing of the Living Wage

The Post-Modern President
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0309.marshall.html
Deception, Denial, and Relativism: what the Bush administration learned from the French

The Grand Theory of All Thought: Blending
http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2004/10/grand-theory-of-all-thought-blending.html
http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/

From Larry Bowa's Clubhouse to the Streets of Fallujah
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tburke1/perma100504.html


Maybe try thinking of a donkey
http://semanticcompositions.typepad.com/index/2004/09/maybe_try_think.html

What George Lakoff knows about the mind
http://semanticcompositions.typepad.com/index/2004/09/what_george_lak.html

How not to test a hypothesis
http://semanticcompositions.typepad.com/index/2004/10/how_not_to_test.html

Excellent, excellent
http://semanticcompositions.typepad.com/index/2004/10/excellent_emexc.html

Relax? I can't relax!
http://semanticcompositions.typepad.com/index/2004/10/relax_i_cant_re.html


Obviously, not everyone likes or agrees with Lakoff. I am no expert - "Moral Politics" just spoke powerfully to the way I felt. I am willing to keep my mind open, though, for constructive critiques of his writings. So far, I did not see anything compelling, but I'll keep on searching...