Microsoft Word put the "contribution" to this thread in comment #70 at 1691 words. And "intellectually lazy" is expecting someone to wade through it all in order to find the "nugget," and forcing your reader to assume he knows the point you are making, if it even exists at all. There's a reason we learned what a "topic sentence" is in our Elementary Writing classes.
Furthermore, I note (not without some irony) that in the past week or so, our colleague cc once urged us to follow one of his links only to allow us to discover he was linking to the same document at the top of the thread. Why should he be given the benefit of the doubt when it's clear he's not reading the material he himself is citing?
A nice observation. Thanks.
Can you show me where I did this?
"Furthermore, I note (not without some irony) that in the past week or so, our colleague cc once urged us to follow one of his links only to allow us to discover he was linking to the same document at the top of the thread."