I have noted on a few occasions that a certain person named "Noetica" seems a rather more rounded thinker than the self-righteous crew who run Language Log and sit upon the highest linguistic perches making random attacks of varying quality and political motivation on the horrid middle-brows of the universe when they dare to speak of language matters.
I commend his/her views expressed on passivity here.
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1539
Passivity
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