Sons

I am the proud parent of two sons, men. 
My eldest Adam is a lovely man, somewhat on the pessimistic side and not always someone who looks on the bright side of life. He is intelligent, caring, generous and very sarcastic. He is a chip off the old block as far as that goes and his sense of humour is similar, so he has inherited some traits from his old man! 
Recently I have spent more time at home, as is evidenced by my blogging, have posted more on the internet, Facebook, Twitter etc. There is a cunning reason behind this, I am working for myself now and I want to be more widely known for business purposes (Though it is not all business related). 
My wonderful son takes great delight in decrying my efforts at every opportunity, if he can reply with a barbed comment, he will. He does not hide his enthusiasm for puncturing my sometime pompousness, indeed he views it as his duty. Probably the job of all offspring? 
I freely admit that sometimes I get a little annoyed by his barbs but only because over the years, I have been just as forthright about others who have published publicly. I often reply in kind and we bat vitriol back and forth until one of us can no longer be bothered.
Here is my point (in case you were wondering!). In this time of mass 24 hour news, hundreds of channels , and public access via every internet website, for anyone with a computer, mobile device and a connection to the WWW, we must accept, that if you write in the public domain we invite criticism, sarcasm and insults from anyone who wishes to comment in reply, whatever their reason!
As someone famous once said and I am para phrasing, free speech allows you to voice your opinion, whilst defending the right of others to do the same even if their view is diametrically opposed to yours!
So my son has reminded me that whilst my spouting has a importance to me and sharing can often be a way of learning new things, a healthy dose of cynicism is necessary to keep ones ego in check!

Just as an aside, who came up with the word "webinar"? Whom ever it was they should be castigated for such appalling misuse of the english language!
A seminar, presentation etc is just that, we do not need another word for w the same thing wherever it is held!