1/ I don't share @LeslieMarshall's politics, but she deleted and apologized for an embarrassingly stupid tweet sent from her account by an intern. Why continue savaging her? People make mistakes. She's humiliated, as we all sometimes are. Just forgive and be done with it.

2/ @LeslieMarshall herself obviously needs to reprimand the intern, but she should forgive that person, too. She should make it a learning experience for that young man or woman. And she herself should learn from it--there's a lesson in it for her and others who use social media.

3/The lesson for @LeslieMarshall and all of us is to review carefully anything going out in one's name. We can't outsource responsibility for our words--from books & articles to blog posts & tweets--to others. If it's in one's name and one hasn't read and approved, it's a shanda.