Thanks, Sally, you were a trooper to wade into this after a vacation.
That's a good point about the two different languages being spoken. Not all academics use a language of obfuscatory mystification--for example, Daniel Albright makes complex arguments in clear sentences--and I would have welcomed an opportunity to have friendly conversation, as opposed to having to parse the standard twaddle about "dependence on fossil fuels,
resource extraction, geography as a class 'formant,'" and "integration of
technology as a social object," which a glance at the panelists' pages would show was inapplicable to the subject matter at hand except as the purest condescension. Ugh, this is getting angry again, I'd rather to try to deal with this humorously.
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- tom moody 6-15-2005 7:07 am