I've previously posted on the work of Mark Johnson and George Lakoff, who have argued that human thought is often metaphorical. Johnson and Lakoff have used numerous examples of our use of language to demonstrate that human cognition is often a metaphorical extension of sensorimotor experience. I've been collecting experimental…
Andrew Sullivan sums it up. Guantanamo has been an incredibly ghastly episode for America. If any other country had done half of what we have done, our government and media would have condemned its behavior nonstop from day one. Yet I constantly meet people who think that all of…
Do you want to celebrate the modern sanitized version of Thanksgiving, or do you want to make a little ruckus with some Thanksgiving straight talk around the dinner table? It's one of my unprovable articles of faith that one of the most valuable gifts I give others is to be…
As you may or may not know, I am a documentary filmmaker working mostly within the very inbred and insular world of bodybuilding. From the local level to the pros, I have covered it all. A few weeks ago I was in New York shooting footage for a new documentary…
Don't read this if you want to sleep well tonight. Stay away from the comments too. People would be swarming in the streets with pitchforks and torches tonight, except that so many of us are afflicted with innumeracy and because we are so easily distractible. How many of us have…