+ LA county wants to banish the term “Master/Slave” from product descriptions and labelling.

From Alex a link to an article espousing a stylish military as the way to a more effective military: NYPress - Cage Match - Matt Taibbi - Vol. 16, Iss. 48

+ And Kim came across this intense pro-Islam/anti-US post at istanbul.indymedia.org.

+ From Metafilter, a viscious tale of crack life in Dallas.

+ I sent these two links out to some of my politically minded friends. They are interviews with linguist George Lakoff on the topic of framing to dominate politics:

+ Geronimo’s “true name” was Goyathlay, or One-Who-Yawns in his people’s language (the Bendonkohe Apache).–he was one of my heros when I was a young teen and reading everything I could find about Native Americans; their lives, culture, history, folklore…that obssession didn’t last more than a few years before I discovered sciencefiction and…