self-inflicted

“It’s a little frustrating, just because it’s self-inflicted and it’s that we have been really good at this the last few weeks,” Clippers guard James Harden said late Saturday night after Game 1.

Sragow contends that the city’s financial problems are largely self-inflicted.

“It’s just such a dumb, self-inflicted injury,” he said, noting the response in Canada has been one of anger and incredulity.

But after seeing all this hullabaloo, I thought I'd take my first crack at the season of self-inflicted suffering — in the name of journalism, not Jesus.

The way out of this self-inflicted wound is to figure out whether Griffin’s proposed remedy is constitutional and then, but only then, allow the state board to try to track down these military and overseas voters.