[tclancy]

>There's no diaphanous them

Autocorrect mistake? I doubt anyone was imaging semi-transparent beings wafting gently in a summer breeze.

So what would you call your alternative to blameless postmortems? FWIW, "walking the plank" is already in use.

[hilariously]

I was imagining it, as the people who are the ghostly images of the "them" out "there" that are often referred to when people are generally upset at authority or the system, that's not what I was trying to talk about.

I'd say the pirates had it right and keel hauling is the way to go.