Who do you think you are?

[Tanja Cilia]

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As most people know by now, Joe Biden dropped the F-bomb on live television when he congratulated President Obama on passage of health care reform. This time, he surpassed himself.

It was, perhaps, to be expected from a person who had had to explain what "clean" meant ("Ask Obama what I thought. He knows what I meant by that. My mother has an expression, clean as a whistle and sharp a as tack. That is the context."), and who had challenged the mental stability of a gun owner who had referred to his Bushmaster AR-15 as his "baby".

Biden's remarks encapsulate the arrogance and hubris of those - not merely politicians - who think they know it all and then some. Alas, there exist people who assume they have the divine right to tell us how to behave, live, and react to statements from On High (i.e., themselves).

This attitude is colloquially known as "teachers' mentality" - but of course it is not only educators who are affected by it.

It is definitely not only politicians and teachers who need ‘speech therapy', however. I have met conceit and intransigency in people of other professions, too.

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