Tim Thomas doesn't want to talk right now

So, Tim Thomas treated us all to his thoughts on politics on the Facebook machine again. I won't get into the details of what he wrote -- standing with the Catholics ... "In Germany, first they came ..." ... etc., etc. -- but in the locker room, he set clear lines about what he saw as appropriate questions about his stances. (The quote is from the article linked above.)

"That's my personal life that has nothing to do with the Bruins or hockey and I'm going to remain silent," he said.

Tim Thomas is an intelligent man, a college graduate, so doubtless he knows that as a well-known, multimillionaire athlete who is willing to make his political views known in a day and age when not a lot of athletes do, people may be interested in his thoughts behind those views and how he came to have them.

And since he deems the workplace an unacceptable forum for queries about those views, surely ... again, intelligent man that he is ... he would have no problem with reporters asking about them as he's walking to his car after practice, eating at a restaurant with his family or outside the front door of his home ... you know, during that "personal life that has nothing to do with the Bruins or hockey."

Because if he didn't, someone far more cynical than I am might come to the conclusion that what he really wants to do is be able to spout his thoughts on politics without anyone ever questioning them or challenging them.