An elected official's personal Twitter account that only features neutral tweets kind of defeats the purpose. And the council can't require that from her personal account elected official =/= employee. The members of the council are not her superiors.

I'm not, but half my office is. I am, honest to goodness, doing minutes from a meeting last night.

This is absolutely an appropriate action in this case. I gather from the fact that she was still the clerk and the source states that she "had" been the subject of a recall that it wasn't successful. Sounds like the voters spoke.

Fair point, but it's the voters who ultimately get to decide that, not the other council members.

Except in this case, it was a political position. She was and elected clerk. Tweeting personal observations from a personal account is what every politician with any knowledge of Twitter does. If she's not doing her job, then the public has a chance to remedy that an re-election.

I'm a city clerk in WI. I would use this description of the job at 2 am after a council meeting that started at 6:30. But most days? It's actually pretty cool.

If she's an elected official, live-tweeting personal observations from her personal account is kind of what she's supposed to be doing. I don't know how anyone could think that a elected official doing otherwise was inappropriate.

The key difference is that she's elected (at least I'm assuming based on the recall effort). What elected official's Twitter account is not filled with personal observations? Now, if she was Tweeting from the City's account, that is a different story. If she's not doing her job as an elected official, voters are the…

I was halfway through this post before I realized that I was saying Flatzilla in my head. The name is so stupid that changing it into some weird Godzilla mash-up makes more sense.

Pixie cuts, FTW!

I was just discussing Facundo the Great in my office the other week. I love StoryCorps.

My fourth grade teacher insisted I was pronouncing tortilla wrong. She insisted that the tilla should be pronounced the same as in flotilla. She did this to a child whose last name is the Mexican equivalent of Smith.

I worked in politics and went to a Catholic university. Where to even begin...

Exactly. Notre Dame has no Greek life. That obviously hasn't stopped problems with sexual assault or the way the University handles it.

My favorite, and sadly no longer usable, way to carry condoms was a plastic case I got a gay bar with a cartoon sperm on the outside. I loved that thing.

My 7 year-old doesn't weigh 40 lbs. Granted, she's tiny, but I can't even imagine.

If businesses are at risk for getting their asses sued (and Ledbetter makes it easier for them to get their asses sued), does that no mean that they are less likely to engage in the practice in the first place? Is Ledbetter the only solution? Of course not. But of course it helps.

Unfortunately, because we don't know the heritage of many blacks living in the United States. The slave trade will do that. Also, those involved in the slave trade would have most closely identified with a tribe rather than a country that probably didn't exist at the time they were kidnapped.

Yes, physical characteristics are biological. However, those biological characteristics are not race. Race is a social construct created to classify people. There is no genetic basis for race.

This is where your argument falls apart: it wasn't child relocation. There was no child when she relocated. She was pregnant when she moved to New York. The baby was born in New York. And he's not winning most of the arguments. The New York appeals panel overturned the family court ruling. Custody arguments will take…