I heart Bitch Ph.D. all the way to my toes

Freedom of Speech smacks up against the generally accepted social rule that being an assoul is in poor taste. And sometimes, just plain indefensible.

People:-- You are judged by the content of your character. Speech reveals character. Actions reveal character even better. What you write in emails, blogs, networking pages, letters to the editor, on the palm of your hand reveals character.

Get some.

That the boy law students felt the need to harass the female law students says this: you women-fearing types need to get some spine.

Man up, will you? We are waiting.

Employers, family, FBI, bounty hunters, et alii will google you, they will read your Facebook/Myspace/Blog. They will. And they will take you more seriously than you might bother to take yourself. Want to live in public? Mm'k. Just remember. You live in public.

Think about your Rhetoric Classes in college, and the discussions about ethos. You are constructing a public persona. There are ways to mark that persona as not-you, but you really need to know how to do that in writing and images before you go wandering off into Dumb-Ass Land in Public.

Ever read The Unbearable Lightness of Being? Well, Sabine (??) lives as if she is always on camera, under observation, and can be impeached of character/ tossed in the gulag for what she says and does at any moment. She lived under Kundera's version of the Soviet occupation Czechoslovakia. You do too if you're on the web. It's just that in a democracy, you are, in fact and custom and law, responsible to your fellow and sister citizens, and you have a right to self expression and political insight, but not so much to verbally mauling your fellow travelers.

What you sow, you reap, my dears. Simple as pie.