Author: Shelley Powers

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

Restless night and couldn’t sleep so I thought I would sooth my spirit and calm my soul by seeing what my good and dear friend Jonathon Delacour has to say.

Imagine how aghast I was to read:

Links for Tim Tams Scandal

Reeling from the shock, I read further:

I strongly believe that U Blog faculty members have a special responsibility to act in accordance with the highest standards of blogging practice. Accordingly, I have no recourse but to raise the issue with the University of Blogaria Ethics Committee (assuming such a body exists) and ask that Burningbird—who is in reality Shelley Powers, the Alfred E. Newman Foundation Professor of International Blogging Relations—be given an official reprimand.

My fellow University of Blogaria comrades, my dear and beloved associates, how could any of you think that I would seek to extort Tim Tams in exchange for links?

I am hurt. Hurt. Hurt, do you hear me? Stabbed to the quick.

I need a cookie.

AKMA writes on forgiveness:

When I say, “Forgive me,” I mean something different from “Let’s pretend it never happened,” or “It doesn’t matter,” or “Just drop it.” “Forgiving” certainly doesn’t entail forgetting, or discounting; it may be the only way to take an offense with adequate seriousness. Forgiving entails recognizing a wrong, looking at it clearly and honestly, assessing responsibility for it, and resolving not to permit that wrong to determine our lives from thence forward.

I’m taking this to heart. I truly am.

Therefore AKMA, I forgive you for not blindly taking my side on the Bird vs. Lemur fight, and for disagreeing with me about realtime blogging when everyone knows that webloggers have cats. Or something.

Just don’t ever do it again.