Why I'm In This Mess

For some months The Most Ethical Man in the World has been urging me to start a blog. I think it's for one reason, at least primarily, which is that I have the nerve to voice whatever comes into my head. The Most Ethical Man in the World is too polite to say most of what he thinks. I, by contrast, have practically made a career out of mouthing off. It doesn't pay well, let me tell you, but somehow people keep hiring me because of my opinions, and because of my total willingness to voice those opinions.
Ethical Man is at once appalled by and impressed with my mouthiness; it was he who first called me Gadfly. "You need business cards with your name and all it should say underneath is: Gadfly."
I got pissed, but I guess he sort of has a point.