Yeah, yeah, pick on my example. Looking at it now, I actually agree with you, but I still have a complaint with people who use "is" with a plural object. Consider my example changed to "There's too many things on my mind!" (A completely true statement.)

>In related news, I will continue to willingly disobey current rules regarding the inclusion of punctuation in quoted words or phrases in which the punctuation is not actually a part of the quoted material.

This only makes sense to me. I've never understood putting punctuation not part of the original phrasing in the quote.