[steelhead_trout]

Good article, but it misses the elephant in the living room. It's just plain wrong that well-peforming employees can be dismissed for speaking their mind off the clock. First Amendment protections REALLY need to be extended somehow to private employer-employee relationships, not just to cover the Phil Robertsons and Alec Baldwins of the world (who are quite well-heeled and still have a powerful income stream) but the poor shmoe who moans about his job on Facebook and winds up getting canned. And if that means scrapping the legal fossil known as "employment at will", then so much the better. This is something conservatives really need to get behind, so that this doesn't continue,

[geologist]

Phil's response came out of an interview with a writer on GQ magazine. No doubt the writer wished to create controversy, thus deriving attention to his column. Nothing wrong it that ... other than it is intended to mislead and stir up tensions. We see the book 1984 coming into reality every day now.

If by chance you have not read it, it is a good idea to do so now. MO!