> writing. Butler's just a bad writer --verbose, turgid, jargonistic. She
> has no metaphors or images, no startling allusions, no witty examples,
> no slant use of quotation, no shrewd deployment of historical anecdote.
So she's a little wordy. Doesn't mean she doesn't have smart things to say or that her ideas are invalid, though. To paraphrase Mae West, when writers are good, they're good, but when they're bad, they're sometimes even better.
-- Dennis