While I don't expect this sort of thing to typically appear on his blog I do appreciate that it's there. Head over to Michael Ian Black's Tumblr and check out this anecdote in which he recalls lambasting an audience member for comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler. The story itself isn't all that surprising but the reflection upon it is something that I wish more people would keep in mind:

But now I feel bad. I feel bad because, in retrospect, that guy didn’t deserve that. Yes he said something incredibly stupid, but my response was just as stupid. I could have made my point a million different ways without screaming into a microphone in a room filled with drunk people. I wasn’t clever, I wasn’t thoughtful, I said nothing that would move the conversation forward. I just yelled because Nazis push my Jew button (my Jew button is located right below my tail).

It was a purely emotional response, the kind that I get upset at other people for making when talking about the mosque they want to build or gay marriage or gun violence or any issue that people use to piss each other off.

The pure emotional response is more satisfying on a personal level but does little to move the conversation forward and does a lot to widen the gap between being able to make progress.