This is for your protection as well as mine. Please do not read if you are easily offended and try to remember that what you are reading is not representative of my being all the time. Please remember to clear cookies if you have entered the password in a public computer use area, and please exercise caution when reading at work - I cannot do anything about it if you are sued for sexual harassment because your colleague looked over your shoulder and read something s/he disliked (and yes, that apparently can be considered sexual harassment in the workplace). You also might want to be a bit discerning if you have minors around.
Hence the mailing list feature - the password protected posts is given when you sign up, although you can also use the contact form and ask for it that way, if you prefer not to be on the mailing list.
In regards to posts with ‘negative’ comments about individuals: I have very likely cleared the content with the person in question prior to its appearing here if it is in reference to someone present in my life. Contrary to popular belief, I am not a perpetual harpie. Admittedly, I am somewhat harsher to those who I do not know personally, am no longer in contact with (because they were somewhat hideous individuals themselves) and generally evil people.