Of course, mummies, zombies, and vampires are also alleged to do the same, so I’m not entirely sure this is a good thing anymore.

In any case, welcome to the first day of Writing Bodies: Rhetorics of the Flesh!

To kick our discussion off, I thought I’d pair some introductory info on the beginnings of rhetoric in ancient Greece with an issue that is currently being hotly debated today — health care reform. Here’s a video clip of George Lakoff explaining the rhetoric that is driving much of the current debate: