Except under extraordinarily rare circumstances — unless you’re Charles Dickens, for instance — you can’t use a comma to separate two independent clauses…

I’m tired of the same old tech news. Aren’t you? You visit a top-recommended tech-related website to find that 50% or more of their content is link bait. Seriously, Gizmodo? Mashable? I expect more from the tech aficianados. For one thing, they are on the bleeding edge of technology and claim to know how gadgets ought to be used. Why aren’t they providing tech expert insights into practical workflows utilizing gadgets?…

Comments create entitlement problems, as well as seemingly removing the filter that normally exists between the brain and the mouth (or fingers in this case). You know what that filter is. Every time there’s something you want to say that isn’t nice, and you say to yourself, “you know, I probably shouldn’t say that” and so you don’t…