STOP Saying “Respect” When You Mean “Civility”, “Geniality”, Or Worse “STFU”

And honestly, to hell with civility and the people who “demand” it.

I know I’m an old-school New England Yankee curmudgeon. I have zero use — or tolerance — for platitudes, shallow disingenuous plastered-on smiles, or the dog and pony show of pointless mindless gormless witless hapless arbitrary social norms. You come to me with any…