It appears I may not be the world's worst language curmudgeon after all...
Quote from a nytimes.com review of the book The Subversive Editor:
Saller herself - the Miss Manners of editing - acknowledges she has these tendencies. She once told her son she had to keep editing because she couldn’t think of another job to which she was so well suited. His response: "Maybe you could be a terrorist."
Hee.