I owe responses to several people, but I'm horrendously busy and won't get to them till the weekend.
Meantime, couple of quick comments... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, maskedzebra <no_reply@...> wrote: <snip> > You are abstracting the issue out of its instantiated > concreteness. I'm appropriating this sentence, Robin. It's a thing of beauty. I'll try to remember to give you credit when I use it. > And I am sure, at least in the case of myself, Curtis > would admit this to you. (But I have a hunch he wants > to cover off for Barry, and he will only tacitly > indicate that I am not far wrong in what I have said.) Bingo. He already did, actually, in a post chiding Bhairitu for his inability to appreciate your dialogue: "This attempt to make it into a pathology just makes you look like you can't get beyond your own personal preferences and understand that other people are interested in different things." > He [Barry] is not maliciously bearing false witness > of course Yes, he is. Why should today be different from any other day?
