A New Look!
As you are most likely noticing, Dog Canyon is sporting a new look. As Dog Canyon has grown and changed over the past year, our audience has grown as has our pack of writers. To better reflect the diverse content you will find on Dog Canyon, we have changed its format. You can now find multiple articles featured on Dog Canyon on the home page. We hope it inspires you to do some hunting through the more than 600 pieces and learn something new about the world.
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george lakoff Archive
Disaster Messaging
By George Lakoff | Posted on July 8, 2010 | 3 CommentsDemocrats are constantly resorting to disaster messaging. Here’s a description the typical situation. • The Republicans outmessage the Democrats. The Democrats, having no effective response, face disaster: They lose politically, either in electoral support or failure on crucial legislation. • The Democrats then take polls...
A Revolution of Crazy Aunts and Uncles
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on June 14, 2009 | 2 CommentsIf we want an extravagant democracy, we should live together like one another’s crazy aunts and uncles. We are, after all, a nation founded by aunts and uncles.Character Versus Brand: A Lesson in Framing
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on May 24, 2009 | No CommentsAdvertising and marketing gurus have so successfully established the importance of “brand” that we in the political sphere often lose sight of the real core of political argument: character. The distinction is not trivial. Brand is about a list of facts or attributes. It’s character...“Sixteen Tons”: A National Anthem?
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on March 29, 2009 | No CommentsCenturies of cultural inheritance teach us that debt puts us at moral and material disadvantage. As Margaret Atwood points out in her book, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, there are ancient reasons that Jesus was called the “Redeemer.” He came to pay...Death Before Disorder: Health Care and “The Reader”
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on February 15, 2009 | No CommentsIn the movie, “The Reader,” Hannah Schmitz is on trial for her Nazi-era war crimes as an SS officer and prison guard, including the murder of 300 Jewish prisoners kept locked in a burning church. Why, she’s asked, didn’t you let them out? Her answer,...Republicans: “Take Away the Car Keys”
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on December 14, 2008 | No CommentsConservative ideologues looking to punish workers and the American middle class for auto industry failures are driven by an authoritarian worldview George Lakoff calls the strict parent model.Don’t think of a sick child
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on October 1, 2007 | No CommentsGeorge W. Bush doesn’t want you to think of a sick child. Not Graeme Frost. Not Gemma Frost. Not Bethany Wilkerson. Not any of the real children affected. He wants you straining your eyes on the fine print of policies, puzzling over the nuances of...George Lakoff’s Freedom Frame
By Glenn W. Smith | Posted on July 18, 2006 | No CommentsGeorge Lakoff is a cognitive scientist whose theories have deepened our understanding of the brain and how we think, act, talk and feel. He works in the domain of mirror neurons and cognitive systems, which may be the stuff beneath our poetry but not necessarily...