Dear Mel,
I think we need a trial separation. I'd love to say it's me and not you... but I'd be lying. It's you. You hurt and disappointed me. I used to love (to watch) you. The sparkle in your eye. That mischievous grin. It was a match made in heaven. Then you changed. It was a slow process, just enough to make my eyes wander. But when you got drunk and said those things... those terrible things. You broke my heart, Mel. Suddenly I was no longer a fan. I was a Jew. Someone that you blamed for the world's problems. How someone living in Southern California and ekking out a living in Healthcare could be bunched in with strangers living in the middle east is beyond me. I spent my life helping people. I gave when I didn't have enough to spare for myself. I never looked at people as non-Jews. We're all people. Human beings just trying to make our world better.

I'm not asking for a divorce. I just need some time away to reflect on what has happened. One day I hope to be able to pop in my Lethal Weapon video and not think about what you have become. Or what you were all along.

Your Jewish fan,

Odessa

CNN: Whatever bloggers are writing about work, employers don't like it. Employees reportedly have been fired for blogging at a number of companies, including Starbucks, Delta Air Lines, Wells Fargo, Friendster and Kmart.

In a January survey by the Society for Human Resource Management, 3 percent of human resource professionals reported disciplining an employee for blogging, and none reported dismissing an employee for such behavior. Nevertheless, ejected bloggers stand by their claims.

I found myself leaning towards the bloggers rights on this issue. While there are some instances that I can see a company having the right to discipline a worker for blogging about their job (posting confidential information, etc...), that's where the rights end. A person should be allowed to freely speak their mind about their life. If someone at work pisses me off, I should be allowed to bitch about them (without listing their name). As far as I am concerned blogging is just another means of expressing oneself. I hear people bitch about their jobs every single day. The work load, the customers, the supervisors, the working conditions... People need to sound off about their frustrations. What's next? A person overheard bitching about their job at dinner is fired for insubordination? Maybe a neighbor hears a coworker complaining as they are sitting in their house... When do we have the right to speak our minds?