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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: LindyBill who wrote (2886)6/30/2003 3:36:04 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 793822
 
Stanley Fish is always interesting to read. Thanks for posting it.

I'm typing away in the middle of the night because the cat decided to prowl the house and woke us up. Since he usually doesn't do that, we were unprepared to hear noises. Now the adrenaline flow won't slow down.

Fish does a much better job, apparently, of rendering Thomas' argument than Thomas does.

The only thing I would add to the last portion of Fish's argument, most of which I agree with, is that, generally but not always, one finds a particular specific wandering behind the timeless generalities argument. My guess is that Thomas, to make that point clearer, favors timeless generalities when they produce outcomes he likes; but does not favor them, or selects different ones when the outcomes don't look so good. I need only invoke the Gore vs. Bush case to make my point.
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