On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Abeness wrote:

> Very well said. I chalk it all up to sloppy thinking, and there's a
> shameful amount of that in the world.

Yes, but here at home I'm not sure we have a right to expect better than
sloppy thinking. We don't teach critical analysis and reasoning, we don't
teach civics and government, and what we do teach is, by and large, taught
sloppily.

DS