So what's my problem with National Punctuation Day?

Many people "write graceless prose not deliberately but because they are gripped by the idea that writing is good only when it is free of errors that only a grammarian can explain. They approach a blank page not as a space to try out new ideas, but as a minefield to cross gingerly. They creep from word to word, concerned less with their readers’ understanding than their own survival.”

- Joseph Williams & Ira Nadel

So there. After two e-mails (TWO! A new record), I felt the need to defend what I had thought was a virtually unassailable position.