There were some things I considered when I was deciding whether to blawg with my real name or blawg as some faceless, nameless being.

I figured that when I use my real name, I can’t be as specific when I refer to a group of people or to a specific person because of the risk of a public relations shitstorm. It’s also a bit more difficult to unleash the four-letter Pirate-speak because of the lingering fear of offending the delicate sensibilities of someone I may or may not interview with for a job or internship someday.

I still freak out a smidgen about using any of George Carlin’s seven dirty words in a post or Tweet.

I imagine the opposite is true of an anonymous blogger: They can rain down the fury as freely as they choose, without having to answer to an angry mob. As such, sometimes I wish I started this blog anonymously. That way, I would be free to unleash any built up vitriol and direct its full power toward something or someone more specific, rather than spread it thinly among the unspecified masses of people I come across on a daily basis.

Either that, or I grow the cajones to directly call someone out and give them funny, apropos nicknames, like some other, more courageous bloggers. Mad props to those who can do that, by the way.

I am the first to admit that I engage in a little self censorship. Otherwise, every other blog post would be about the self-serving lip flapping some engage in while in class; or the lip flapping in the hallways outside of class about their glorious, glorious grades or various accomplishments; or the oddly high school-like group formation phenomenon that happens outside of the law school; or the super-sized egos that one can’t help but run into in the law school setting.

Yeah. Not every one of my thoughts is about puppies, kittens, rainbows, and puppies and kittens playing under rainbows. And I think it’s time I was maybe a little bit more honest.

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