[CaptainK]

Linguistic babble form a Chomsky clone.

[petty bourgeois]

John McWhorter used to teach linguistics at Cal. I don't know what happened to him. He may be in some sort of Symbionese or Sino-Viet re-education camp, undergoing mandatory sensitivity training.

He told me once he would speak at ANY campus but Berkeley when asked to do so/

[RightWingAtheist]

Actually, Lakoff's psycholinguistics are intended to counter Chomsky's theories of generative grammar (although it's nothing that John McCarthy and Terry Winograd hadn't already made clear earlier). Whereas Lakoff is merely a psycholinguist, Chomsky is a psychotic linguist :)