The thin skinned need not apply for this business

There's a post I read yesterday that I'd dearly love to respond to, except it was written by someone who I consider a friend, or at least a friendly acquaintance and my response to it would not be positive at all.

Even I know there's no value in burning a bridge or starting wank over a single blog post like that. I try to save my polite dissent for moments when I feel like it's really necessary to say something. The post in question really made me see red as a writer and someone who would one day like to be published.

( And yet, somehow, I end up saying something anyway. Probably will be the death of me before I get started, but if I don't vent, furniture will get destroyed. )