I accompanied our son on his first-grade field trip to the public library. They watched a video on internet safety, or manners, or “internet etiquette,” or “netiquette.” They learned how sometimes, when you’re at a screen, typing your thoughts, it gets easy to be mean. That ease manifested itself in the form of a stinky green fog.

Commentariat at NYTimes.com seem to be suffering from that same fog.

‘Maxed Out’ Author Thought Readers Would Critique Her Ideas. Instead, They Judged Her Choices. – NYTimes.com.

Ugh.