Languagelog provides tasty pudding
I was once thrilled to see a reference to myself on Instapundit:
Q: "What's the quickest way to shut Noam Chomsky up?"A: "Ask him a linguistics question."
Now, my assertion seems to have at least some validity: although I'm not qualified to comment on Chomsky's linguistics work, it would appear that at least some of his linguistics work bears remarkable similarities to his political discourse:
Chomsky's typically confident conclusion is both extraordinarily broad -- "in any statistical model for grammaticalness, these sentences will be ruled out on identical grounds" -- and also unsupported by any argument other than assertion.
Score one for Boviosity!