I’d really rather not do this, but I’m putting an end to my Patently Queer blog today. It was fun while it lasted and I will surely miss it.
It was brought to my attention on Friday that blogging presents the risk of an ethical violation for my profession. It is seen as the equivalent of communicating with the media and therefore must be “properly vetted” by the ethics committee. Even a personal blog like this one.
To my knowledge I have made no ethical violation. I have never even mentioned my present profession much less written anything about it that could be regarded as a violation. I’ve only shared personal anecdotes. However, I can foresee circumstances in which someone may question the appropriateness of some of my posts, perhaps alleging I was painting my profession in a bad light, thus triggering an ethics investigation. I would not like the stress of dealing with that. Not because I think they would find against me. They would not, I’m sure. But because I would potentially have an ethics investigation put on my record and I’d rather not have to spend the rest of my career explaining it.
So in an abundance of caution I decided to put an end to the blog, thus eliminating this risk.
Thank you everyone for reading Patently Queer and sharing your thoughts and reactions with me. I will of course continue to read blogs and comment as I have been doing for the last year since I discovered blogs. Making thoughtful, well-reasoned comments on others’ blogs is an effective creative outlet for me, and I will continue making them.
I am going to leave this notice up for a few weeks then shut down the site entirely.
I love you all. xoxo
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One of my favorite talent shows, “Dancing With the Stars”, announced their cast for the upcoming season. Of course, it includes an NFL football player (they are sticking with their tried and true formula). The cool thing is that the football player is a local one: Chad Ochocinco from the Cincinnati Bengals. Yay!
Yes, you read it here first. I’m in lust with this technology.
We shopped the internet and found a great Blu-Ray player on sale at Best Buy for $70 off, so we bought it. It’s the kind that we can plug into our router. According to the description, it’s not just a Blu-Ray player, it’s an ‘internet device’. We get it home and hook it all up and were just amazed. Not only does it play the Blu-Ray DVDs, it plays all sorts of internet TV and radio channels, plays video-on-demand from Amazon.com, and best of all, it streams movies from Netflix. The streaming Netflix movies display full screen and in full 5.1 surround sound. And it doesn’t cost any more for the streaming service!
