Hey folks!

When under pressure, whether it be from blogs, postings or people following you around-shadowing your every move, you're bound to "blow your cool" without a whole lot of provocation. Seems like Allen had his fill of the tag-a-long. His problem was letting his mouth get ahead of his brain. Something that happens to ALL OF US.

All we have to do is read what WE write...when we find ourselves under attack, we respond w/belittling names directed back at our attackers. Nothing too surprising about that.

BUT remember, when someone we hold above all others stumbles, we all suffer the pain of the ensuing fall.

When Jesse Jackson called Jews "himmies" (sp?) or Jimmy "The Greek" made "off-color" jokes (pardon the pun), we all laughed and said stuff like "Consider the source" or "...par for the course..." or something like that. Do you remember the last time you told an "off-colored" joke or made a remark about someone that wasn't appropriate? Did you look around and check EVERYTHING to be sure there wasn't a microphone, video camera or an "acquaintance" nearby that didn't have you in their "cross-hairs?"

Did that make what was said by those people make the world any better or worse? Probably not. But, it made good "fodder" for the late-night comedians and great editorial cartoons.

So will Allen's slip.

And the world will still continue to turn.

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