When I was a kid in the previous millenium, TV was a big deal.  Until the late 1960s, my family had one set, a black-and-white model in a blond-wood cabinet, and we gathered around it to watch programs as a family. Interesting, you say (being nice to the old guy), and a little quaint, but what has it got to do with beef jerky? I was getting to that. Words have emotive as well as cognitive meaning.  They can point outward at things in the world, and at the same time inward to our … [Read more...]