Ouch! —
“I understand that in a constitutional republic, people are afforded certain liberties to speak their minds. But we are also afforded, please let’s remember, the right to zip it. To keep a stiff upper lip. To grin and bear it. Because for the most part, our opinions are usually much more fascinating to us than to everyone else. Take it from a guy whose website address is his own name.”
(Tony Woodlief, in a September 16, 2009 blog post entitled, “The Emotive Impulse,” here.)