Your comment would contribute much more to the discussion if you explained why.

I'd suggest to continue on to footnote 3 if you plan to use footnotes in your writing, though :)

I did too. Couldn't figure out why that was even in there. It seemed so ludicrously out of place but so intentional.

I found it very entertaining. And humanizing of the writer - it shouted "hey, look, this isn't your usual rant on punctuation" early on in the piece, before the writing style had had time to otherwise distinguish itself from the hundreds of other articles we've read on stuff like this. Like some weird kind of foreshadowing.

It reinforced the point of the whole essay.

Almost missed being able to read that because I couldn't see them due to having JavaScript off.