I understand that many people take issue with the word "sarcastic" and automatically assume that sarcasm, and those who wield it, are "bad" in some way. It would seem to be unusual to use either term in a positive sense, and yet, it is one which I have claimed for myself, and, admittedly, have had applied to me on more than one occasion most of my life. I am reminded of a young, and brilliant, computer engineer I once knew, over 10 years ago now, whose comment on sarcasm in 1997 was "how can an intelligent person today be anything other than sarcastic?" I think his statement stands as true today as it did then, and it makes me wonder, actually, whatever became of him.
One of the actual Webster’s dictionary definitions of sarcasm is: "a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language." In light of the actual, as opposed to the commonly perceived, meaning of the word, I find it to be an entirely appropriate characterization of my methods of expression and observation.
And since I am somewhat obsessed about the precision of language and annoyed by most people’s laziness in their use of the English language, I enjoy using words that are commonly mis-used in their proper and applicable ways and in introducing people to the correct, or alternative, meanings of other words, and even sprinkling my entries with words calculated to send many readers to the dictionary function of their chosen search engine in an effort to increase the overall fluency of the population. It isn’t a small task, I know, but I feel up to it!