PLEASE DON'T expect more of me than I can do. I'm just one person with two other part time jobs besides this blog. I'm not the New York Times. I don't have fact checkers or editors, or attorneys.

I don't have the resources to conduct a forensics investigation like some of my readers emailing me seem to expect. I'm just me, writing what I see and feel, and then posting it.

Anyone else can post a comment here or send me a guest editorial, if it is cogent and well written, I will post it. But please don't expect me to be a PR arm for the "movement" and to avoid critical statements about any one group, as if I see something that deserves criticism or comment, I'm going to write it, whether it upsets someone I love or not.

That's how this blog works. It's my opinions, my reactions, nothing more. I don't represent SNAP or any other organization. I'm just me trying to figure things out. . . .