please note.

the following important amendment to sweetney.com's declaration of independence (and yes, i promise this will be the last of this crap you'll hear for a while from me... can you say *boundary setting*?):

6. this is a personal weblog, not a public forum; a dictatorship, not a democracy. i do not owe you a voice here, and so reserve the right to delete comments with extreme prejudice should i deem them to be rude, snarky, stupid, hateful, combative, mean, or anything else i find unacceptable. 99.999% of the comments i get do not fall into any of these categories, thankfully, so this generally isn't an issue for me or for you. and yes, you are absolutely free to disagree with or criticize anything i write on this here blargh, so long as you do it in a way that is not clearly asshole-ish. openly being an asshole will get your comment deleted so fast you'll hear a sonic boom about 10 seconds after you try to post it.

just, you know, FYI.