And so, I do not (objectivist, positivist existentialist though I am, or try to be), as Messers. Lakoff and johnson claim I claim, claim that I can or could do without metaphor. What I do assert is that I rarely or never let a metaphor, my own or anybody else's, pass unexamined or unidentified; and if it serves, as most peoples' metaphors do, to disguise deceit and unreason, I say so. If, for example, I hear of a "War on Drugs," or a "War on Terror," or of bad law called "a tool," I cry horseshit, and do not permit the speaker continue until he has admitted his imbecility and his bad faith and vowed not to persist in it