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There was a cognitive scientist at Mixing Memory who had a skeptical take of some of Lakoff's views on metaphors and was doing a chapter-by-chapter analysis of one of his books, but then he disappeared off the face of the internet. Still have no idea what happened to him, shame if he died without presumably signing up for cryonics.
It looks like he is alive and well, but he has left the field and academia. Now he has a job with a state government. I probably shouldn't say more than that, to respect his anonymity. When he was blogging he dropped some clues about his identity which I followed to figure out who he was, and your comment prompted me to google him to see what he's up to now.
Cool. I tried to do some googling based on first name and possible university but didn't come with anything. Would have been nice of him to have a better last post than one promising content in the future.
At least some of that skepticism is well-deserved. Lakoff and his coauthor Johnson deny the existence of facts.