Lakoff lives

Some say frame master George Lakoff is fading as a Democratic seer, but Harry Reid's speech suggests the U.C. Berkeley is still guiding the Dems.

Harry Reid: "At best [more oil] is an 18th century answer to a 21st century crisis; at worst it's pure baloney."

Title of Lakoff's current book: The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics With an 18th-Century Brain.