A Personal Apology

[Editor's addendum: To be clear, we did not receive any complaints about the e-mail in question. Somehow, this e-mail bypassed me in the approval process, and when it appeared in my personal e-mail in-box, I was appalled and found it to be inappropriate — for the reasons I list below. I wrote this post not in response to complaints about the e-mail, but in response to my personal feelings about it.]