Arrow-right Camera

Color Scheme

Subscribe now

Kevin: Comes With The Territory

On his Facebook page, Statesman opinionator Kevin Richert posts: “I should never be surprised at what passes for civil dialogue in the Idaho Statesman comment queue. But the (anonymous) character who took a cheap shot at my son for landing an internship on Capitol Hill, saying it somehow flunked the smell test? Wow. All I can say is, welcome to public life, kid.” I responded that an anonymous troll who made an online crack about one of my kids in a HucksOnline thread would immediately be thrown in the cooler and forgotten about. Kevin must have thicker skin than I.

Question: How do you handle slights re: your kids?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog