Reflections of a stormy petrel

And some day you might actually post an answer, instead of some nasty little rhapsody about your own moral superiority? Ah, but that would require work. Even worse, it might subject your position to further responses, and we don't want that, do we? It's so hurtful to be answered back, especially when it is done without the proper amount of genuflection to your innate excellence. Well, I am sorry, I am so so so sorry, that I upset you by posting about things I knew; I am even sorrier, even so so so sorrier, that that turned out to be one or two things more than you know. The number of things I don't know is infinite, and I don't discuss things I don't know - in which I am, I know, a sport, a bizarreness, an outright annoyance. It seems to have become law, but how or when I don't know, that people are entitled to have opinions on matters of which they are blindly ignorant; and, what is more, that they have an absolute right not to be corrected, criticized or mocked for this. Well, I stand by the opposing view - if you are ignorant in a subject, don't pretend to have an opinion, and if you do, remember that it is under correction. It's not my fault that I enjoy reading and finding things out. I recommend it to you; you might find it a pleasing pastime. And it certainly beats inventing hollow verbal procedures to pretend to a superiority you don't have.