[jdudek]

One can argue if it’s a misuse or not. It’s quite handy to have such utility classes that rely on !important and can be used in markup directly. I have plenty of those in my stylesheets.

[1] http://davidtheclark.com/on-utility-classes/

[jqm]

Like your article. Especially agree with this phrase "authoring and maintenance considerations should trump kilobyte savings" (within boundaries of course).