OFFLIST Re: OFF-TOPIC: Non linguistics books by Chomsky

You wrote:

"I hope not. :) I honestly wasn't trying to start a discussion on the
politics of Chomsky, I was just surprised that he had written any books on
politics... most academics I know at the university are pretty single
mindedly obsessed with their subject of expertise most of the time.

I see. This is not necessarily true, however. Mark Rosenfelder, Justin B.
Rye, Herman Miller, and myself - all of us interested in language - are also
interested in politics...

"Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned I agreed with the views presented in his
book. :)

We can discuss such things if you like; I won't explain my political views
right now (it'd take too long...). I'll just say that I have a whole bunch
of problems with how things are going these days...
http://www.krysstal.com/democracy.html
may be of interest to you. It's much better than what we get through local
media (or at least in my area, and I live in Canada), which rarely report,
for example, Iraqi civilian deaths. I haven't seen anything on the incursion
of Rafah by the Israeli army from local media either. :|:|:|
http://www.independent.co.uk/
is my source of knowledge for the terrible crimes perpetrated there.

Trebor.