[grncdr]

Don't be too hard on them, they're only a baby after all.

More seriously, I agree with you 100%. Many, many, times I've stopped halfway through a writing an explanatory comment and refactored the to make the comment unnecessary.

This habit was formed by realizing that most people (including me) don't read comments half as carefully as they read code. So if you want something to be noticed and understood, you better put it in the code.