Shady Book Lists, Influential Blogs, Cognition of Religion, and some more Lakoff

THE 100 BEST NON-FICTIONBOOKS OF THE CENTURY
http://www.nationalreview.com/100best/100_books.html

Holy cow! OK, some are good. Perhaps some have been in the top hundred most INFLUENTIAL books even if they were not that good. But any list that contains Behe's "Darwin's Black Box" can only be called "Top 100 Most Delusional, Deranged and Dangerous Books of the Century". But, of course, the Righties like those....(hat tip, Siris: http://branemrys.blogspot.com/)

Publius is back in form with these two posts:

THE INTERNET & TSUNAMI RELIEF - A Foreshadowing of the Distant Future?
http://lawandpolitics.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_lawandpolitics_archive.html#110542245099352966

BILL O'REILLY - Master of Pathos
http://lawandpolitics.blogspot.com/2005_01_01_lawandpolitics_archive.html#110533324846166706

Chris from Mixing Memory is on a roll. A whole series of great posts that I highly recommend:

What, If Anything, Can Evolutionary Stories Tell Us About Human Cognition?
http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2004/12/what-if-anything-can-evolutionary.html

Religion, Morality, and Posner
http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2004/12/religion-morality-and-posner.html

Do Children Attribute False Beliefs to God?
http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2005/01/do-children-attribute-false-beliefs-to.html

An Interesting Contrast (between theists and atheists responses to the tsunami)
http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2005/01/interesting-contrast.html

I Typoed a Whole Post for the Language Log
http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2005/01/i-typoed-whole-post-for-language-log.html

A Comprehensive Theory of Religious Cognition
http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2005/01/comprehensive-theory-of-religious.html

What the Cognitive Scientists Believe
http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2005/01/what-cognitive-scientists-believe.html

Intelligent Design Inferences in Children
http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2005/01/intelligent-design-inferences-in.html

"One of the Grossest Oversimplifications of All Time"
http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2005/01/one-of-grossest-oversimplifications-of.html

Spanish Rats Learn Japanese
http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2005/01/spanish-rats-learn-japanese.html

The Schematicity of Religious Thought
http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2005/01/schematicity-of-religious-thought.html

Words of Wisdom on the "Christian Nation"
http://mixingmemory.blogspot.com/2005/01/words-of-wisdom-on-christian-nation.html


Paul Rosenberg, over on Daily Kos, continues his series of Lakoffian analysis:

Uniting DKos #4: The Rightwing Power Grab
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/7/13638/90999

Uniting The DKos Community #5: The Social Skills of Democracy
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/8/191214/3713

Uniting the DKos Community #6: Cognitive Development
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/10/152131/446

...and people at Effect Measure continue their excellent series on Lakoff:

Lakoff - VI: Prelude to politics
http://effectmeasure.blogspot.com/2005/01/lakoff-vi-prelude-to-politics.html

Lakoff - VII: An important contribution to political discourse
http://effectmeasure.blogspot.com/2005/01/lakoff-vii-important-contribution-to.html