>.. wherever he bloody well wants to be. There are things, important things
>sometimes, about which most can agree with him. There are many
>(most, perhaps)
>about which we may not, at which times we may learn the premises and reasoning
>of hegemonic logic and publicity, and even, gasp, where we're just smugly
>holding forth without a case as unassailably developed as we thought it was
>(happens to me a lot, anyway). His list manners are better than most, and his
>knowledge about a wide range of things is impressive and useful.
>I'd miss Carl
>Remick at least as much, mind. Anyway, Brad went of his own accord,
>so there's
>an end to it. Grinding on about how his like doesn't belong on
>leftie lists is
>just a sad symptom of leftie exclusionism, I reckon. Which always did make me
>groan in despair, and always will.
Me too. Time for me to quote Michael Kinsley's remark that the right is always looking for converts, while the left is always looking for heretics.
Brad said he signed off because all the hard lefties here were making him feel like a right-winger, and he didn't like that. No doubt many will respond by saying he is a right-winger, but that's a pretty weird political taxonomy that makes little distinction between him and Jerry Falwell or Amity Shlaes.
Doug