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Rental Car Ads Are The Intellectual Issue Of Our Time

Stanley Fish—public intellectual, Times blogger, and man of secret ethics—has been doing a lot of thinking about rental car ads, and their relation to cheating on your wife and/ or gay lover. "The genius of the commercials is that they foreground the sexuality that informs the relationship between the car owner and the object of his/her affection," Fish wrote. That's what I'm saying! Because many rental car ads play on the theme of leaving your old car for a new one, Fish believes they are deserving of deep deconstruction. About his favorite Avis ad, he concludes "Lust is lust and betrayal is betrayal, whether the relationship is gay or straight." Others might just like the part with the car, and the guy, and the joke. The ad, and his deep, sexy analysis of its genre, below. More »

10:06 AM on Wed May 7 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
871 views, 19 comments

Latest by busyness: @oneinsixbillion: Don't you mean a jhon? more »

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Stanley Fish Finds Right And Wrong Spectacularly Uninteresting

Stanley Fish, the author, law professor, columnist, and one of the Times' innumerable bloggers, thinks it would be helpful if readers know exactly what his motivation is with all this highbrow writing he does. "Given a choice between being trivial and being ethical in any direction whatsoever, I'll take trivial (although I might want to debate the judgment), because ethics is not something I'm doing in these columns," he explains in his latest entry. How about superfluous, then? Would you consider being pompous and superfluous, Mr. Fish? Sure you would! More »

9:26 AM on Fri Mar 14 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
812 views, 25 comments

Latest by Disbeliever: Wow, that was four nouns that start with I in a row! Methinks a PhD wrote that! Still, how sad for Mr. Fish that not even the wannabe smartypants snob undergrads will swallow his tripe. Signing off for this chain! more »