Holy Flurking Schnit! Can it actually be an article taking famed anti-Affirmative Action Linguistics Professor John McWhorter seriously as a Linguist?. I wonder how the opening phone call went:

REPORTER: Hello, Professor McWhorter? We'd like to talk to you about...
MCWHORTER: Fine. **SIGH** As an African-American myself, I feel that race-based standards are detrimental...
REPORTER: No, no! We want to talk about your Linguistics work!
MCWHORTER: ...Wha? Oh, great!

The book being reviewed looks extremely intelligent. Glad to see Berkeley hires powerhouse linguists instead of Chomsky-ites.

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