escapades of the elusive kat

You are absolutely right - normally.
If I were some low-level nobody riff-raff, the company wouldn't care what I do in my free time. However, my Boss is somewhat up there mixed with some complicated politics, so anything I do would be in the spotlight by association, not by my own merit, but his. My going out of line might cost him a reprimand or something. And I'm not just a nobody volunteer in that charity, my name is registered up there as a member of the board and all that. The company may challenge that I'm doing that volunteer work and causing a drop in my productivity at work.

I already received a comment in Russian singing praise of the incident and since it's from an unknown account I've deleted it and blocked the user as well. Tough......