An old saying in the legal profession goes, “Never put anything in writing that you wouldn’t want read in court.” The idea is that anything written can be discovered and used against an attorney and his client when it’s time to go to trial.

There’s a broader application of that saying that applies to more of us: Never put anything in writing that you wouldn’t want your parents to read in The New York Times.

This came to mind as I read the vile private messages that have been published over the past few weeks, bringing infamy to the people who wrote them and, no doubt, significant embarrassment to their parents.

The first batch were exposed by National Review . On Oct. 3, Audrey Fahlberg broke the news that Jay Jones, a Democrat vying to be the next attorney general in Virginia, had se

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