David Dyer-Bennet writes: rone at ennui.org (magical truthsaying bastard roney!) writes: > Steven Brust writes: > But I certainly agree with David that sloppy writing indicates sloppy > thinking. I am not certain I can prove, or even defend this belief. > I think it might be symptomatic, but it can simply indicate inherent > sloppiness in the writer; that is, not sloppy thinking, but sloppy doing. And how many people who are "inherenly sloppy" actually think clearly? I could investigate this... but i don't feel like it... so i'll say "500". rone -- {Reagan's} presidency always reminded me of a remark made by a woman to Heywood Broun following Secretariat's victory in the Triple Crown. After the trauma of Vietnam and Watergate, she said, Secretariat had "restored her faith in humanity." I like to think Reagan was the Secretariat of the eighties. - Garry Trudeau