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• George Lakoff on Katrina - Failure of Moral Values In a nice follow up to my earlier There’s No Helping the NeoCons post, George Lakoff comments that Katrina was not only a natural disaster and federal failure, it was a complete failure of the Republican moral and political philosophy. (emphasis is Lakoff’s) “The [right-wing conservatives] central principle: Government has no useful role. The only common good
• Support Free College Tuition for Minnesota’s Best Students MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty floated a plan today that would provide high school students graduating within the top 25% of their class 2 free years of college tuition. For an additional 2 years, just major in math or science. Education is on my list of things I think US citizens should ‘get for free’, so
• How Many is a Brazillion? I gotta thank Mark for passing this one along. It’s had me chuckling the last couple days. “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.” “OH NO!,” the President exclaims, “That’s terrible….How many is a brazillion?”
• MN Governor e-Debate 2006 First Impressions Steven Clift is moderating the 2006 MN Gubernatorial candidate e-dbate. I’ve been following along via the RSS feed. Ever day a new question - perfect. This is exactly how I like my politics - integrated into how I do everything already (RSS). The questions are good, the answers are surprisingly good considering it’s a ‘political debate’.
• There’s No Helping the NeoCons  A while back, I read George Lakoff’s Don’t Think of an Elephant. It was extremely helpful in understanding how progressives and neo-conservatives frame issues differently and their underlying values. From it, I learned NeoCons see asking for help a sign of weakness. That all assistance is charity and charity should be abolished. That if you’re asking