CALL ME SNAKE

We all thought blogging was good clean fun until a Chicago ad exec went and killed himself last week, possibly because of insulting blogs written about him. That was a wakeup call to me to try not to malign anyone unfairly. And I’ve tried to follow that rule but have made a few notable exceptions: the President, Vice President, former Secretary of Defense, and Massachusett’s previous governor. And in those cases I don’t think my maligning was exactly unfair. Still, I’m going to think twice in the future before I shoot by mouth off–or shoot my typing fingers off, as the case may be, though not literally…