Wow.

There has been overwhelming response to the post yesterday about, well, everything. Some expressing sadness, some expressing alarm that I would be such a knucklehead as to put something up about the general state of my workplace so early in my tenure, some worried that I had gone off the deep end.

Yes, yes, and yes. I agree, times three.

Yes, my friend’s loss is tragic. She buried her father today with full military honors and she seems to be holding up pretty well considering. I continue to be sad for her and her family, and I would recommend that you should be sad as well. I won’t go into the rest of the expanding story out of respect for the man and the family’s privacy.

The original article I posted yesterday has been edited to remove whatever might possibly in some bizarre and overly sensitive world be construed as work-related and potentially unfriendly. As I don’t run a j-school-approved operation, I get to do that. Considering that I also run a friendly joint around here, I thought I’d let you know about that too.

As for the deep end? Perhaps I have been a little too candid. But isn’t the truth—however obscured to protect identities—a powerful weapon? I’ve actually seen that posts here, entries that adhere to my rules of conduct for fairness and accuracy from my particular viewpoint, affect change. More often than not for the better.

I’m sure that countless individuals have taken a look here and decided that I am a troublemaker with an axe to grind. I can assure you that the only dull implement I see in need of sharpening is the one named “silence.”

Your impolitical pal,

bob