Well, that's the Internet for you

A few hours ago I posted a personal comment on this blog about a controversy back at my alma mater that I have been following with great interest and dismay in the press. I won't be more specific here because it was only an hour or so later that a link to this blog was posted on one of the major sites devoted to said controversy, and I want to avoid mentioning here any of the keywords that people doing Google searches would use.
I have removed that post from the blog to break that link. Not because I take back what I said, but because I don't want this journal sucked into the vortex of that huge mess. I intended it to be a way for friends and family at home to keep informed about what is going on in our lives over here. I'm a private person and didn't mean for the blog to go public like that. Looking at my traffic I have maybe ten or fifteen people reading this every week or so -- all of whom I know -- and I want to keep it that way. Of course, I suppose I should have realized what I was stepping in publishing a post like I did, but foolishly I didn't expect anyone else on the outside to be listening.
If any of you who regularly read this blog care what I had to say, and I'm not saying that you ought to, ask me and I'll email you the text of my comments privately.
The authors of the blog that linked here may reprint my words as an anonymous comment -- one of how many? hundreds?-- if they really want to, but it's not like I said anything new or profound about the matter, and I ask them here to respect my privacy and remove their link to this blog.