In The Mailbox, 05.06.15

— compiled by Wombat-socho


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Questions About The Clinton Family Foundation
Louder With Crowder: Avengers – Age Of Political Correctness
First Street Journal: As Usual, Hillary Clinton Gets It Wrong
Doug Powers: Looks Like Baltimore Already Received A Substantial “Urban Investment”
Twitchy: “Painfully Dumb Tweet!” Chris Cuomo Gets Schooled On Hate Speech And The Constitution
Shark Tank: Wasserman-Schultz Celebrates Four Years As DNC Chair, Others Not So Excited



RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: National Offend A Feminist Week
American Thinker: The Hill-Billy Cash Pump
BLACKFIVE: Trigger Warning
Conservatives4Palin: Daniel Henninger – The Democrats Own Iran
Don Surber: Court Tells Wife-Killer To Pay For His Own Sex Change
Jammie Wearing Fools: Media Continues Attacks On Pamela Geller As ISIS Calls For Her Slaughter
Joe For America: New Black Panther Leader – “Bomb Nurseries To Kill White Babies”
Pamela Geller: FBI Under Increased Scrutiny For Failing To Prevent Garland Jihad Attack
Protein Wisdom: All Your Children Are Belong To Us
Shot In The Dark: To Be Fair, You Were Warned
STUMP: Watch It Unwind – Chicago, Greece, And Asset-Grabbing
The Gateway Pundit: Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby May Face Charges
The Lonely Conservative: Big Brother Is Watching – And Transcribing
This Ain’t Hell: Jade Helm 15
Weasel Zippers: Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md) Says “My Party Did Not Cause The Problems In This City” Despite Dems Running Baltimore Since 1967


A Long Time Until Now

In The Mailbox, 04.30.15

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Ugh. So easy to screw things up by eating the wrong food. Anyway, here’s some linkagery in lieu of Live at Five; there will also be a book post later today (or maybe Friday) with some updates on the Hugo Awards kerfluffle.


OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: GoFundMe?
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: A Mild Defense Of Alcoholics Anonymous
Michelle Malkin: Debunking Obama’s Bilious Baltimore Babble
Twitchy: Adam Baldwin Puts A Hulk Smash On Mark Ruffalo’s Recommended Reading For “White America”
Shark Tank: Bernie Sanders Announces He’s Running For President



RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Baltimore “Hero Mom” Berates Son For Participating In Riots
American Thinker: Another Thrilling Episode Of Blacks Behaving Badly
BLACKFIVE: EFMB – Giving It Your All
Conservatives4Palin: Gov. Palin – The Slap Heard Round The World
Don Surber: A University Stands Up To Unpatriotic Students
Jammie Wearing Fools: Confirmed – Baltimore’s Incompetent Hack Mayor Ordered Police To Stand Down In Face Of Violent Thuggery
Joe For America: American Patriots, Your Kiddies Must Dress Islamically For “Field” Trips!
JustOneMinute: They Must Have Seen This Coming
Pamela Geller: Students Publicly Humiliated By School Because Parents Refused Permission For Mosque Visit
Protein Wisdom: Is Your City Burning? Thank A Democrat!
Shot In The Dark: A Thought Experiment
STUMP: 80 Percent Funding Hall Of AWESOME – Experts Say…
The Gateway Pundit: Obama vs. Reagan On GDP Growth – Not Even Close
The Jawa Report: In Japan, R2D2 Flies You
The Lonely Conservative: Obama Lawyer – If SCOTUS Rules For Same Sex marriage, Religious Schools Could Lose Tax Exempt Status
This Ain’t Hell: Brooke Baldwin Apologizes To Veterans
Weasel Zippers: Michael Moore Demands America Disarm The Police
Megan McArdle: Blame The Machines


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In The Mailbox, 04.21.15

— compiled by Wombat-socho


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OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: 420 Clinton Lies
Bastion of Liberty: Cage, Convert, Or Kill (h/t Loyal Reader Brian E.)
Michelle Malkin: Gwyneth Paltrow’s Poverty Voyeurism
Twitchy: Oberlin Feminists Freak Out Over Christina H. Sommers Speech, Accuse Her Of Supporting Rapists
Shark Tank: Fiorina Says Woman-On-Woman Dynamic “Game Changer” Against Hillary


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: “Clinton Cash” Book Bombshell Set To Explode Hillary Clinton Pay-To-Play Scandal
American Thinker: Lack Of Integrity And The Revolving Door
BLACKFIVE: Exclusive Interview With David Baldacci
Conservatives4Palin: Sarah Palin – Taya Kyle Shows Her Strength And Grace
Don Surber: Scoreboard 4-20-15
Jammie Wearing Fools: How Foreign Cash Made Bill And Hillary “Filthy Rich”
Joe For America: CBS Breaks Out Their Monica Lewinsky Knee Pads For Obama
JustOneMinute: The Greaser Goes To New Hampshire
Pamela Geller: Muslims Protest Outside Church Building, Say Cross “Challenging Islam”
Protein Wisdom: Liberal Fascism In Wisconsin
Shot In The Dark: When Journalists Accidentally Tell The Truth
STUMP: Obamacare Tax Watch – You Gotta Wait For Your Wrong Info From The Government
The Gateway Pundit: 72-Year-Old Grandma Rants About Today’s “Soft Women” Who “Use Up The Elderly Money”
The Jawa Report: ISIS Base Camp Located Just South Of US-Mexico Border
The Lonely Conservative: This Is How Progressives Deal With Political Opposition
This Ain’t Hell: Ted Cruz Wants The Troops Armed In Garrison
Weasel Zippers: Race-Baiting Author Toni Morrison Says “I Want To See A Cop Shoot An Unarmed White Teenager”
Megan McArdle: Lower Health Costs Won’t Cure All
Mark Steyn: Oligarchs For Hillary!


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‘People Who Are Joined in Collective Hate’

Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) has a smart take on Ron Jonson’s book about social-media shaming:

If I have one complaint about the book, it’s that he doesn’t dive deep enough into what shaming is good for and why we like it so much. . . .
Shame is, after all, a force for good as well as evil. . . .
Shame is one way we enforced good behavior in small groups before there were laws or trading networks. It is a very powerful motivator, and it helps us to come together in large cooperative groups with high degrees of trust and sharing. A hatred of being shamed ourselves and a love of shaming others who have transgressed both literally helped to make us human. . . .

Interrupting here (because I’m a mansplaining misogynist and that’s what we do) to point out that McArdle has correctly situated this in the context of mankind’s tribal nature. It cannot be emphasized enough that our need to feel membership in a larger group is a powerful psychological motivator. Even highly intelligent and well-educated people seldom stop to think why they identify so passionately as a sports fan (“Roll Tide!”) or in any other chosen tribal identity. Our social behavior — in everything from trivial things like online fanfic groups to international terrorist organizations — reflects our instinctive tribalism. And now, having exercised my patriarchal privilege, I yield the floor to Megan McArdle:

But . . . shame doesn’t just punish wrongdoers; it also turns us into our own moral enforcers. Once we’ve been shamed, we are strongly motivated to avoid doing the things that brought it on. Or at least, most of us are — one of the hallmarks of sociopaths is that they don’t feel shame or remorse. To paraphrase Gordon Gekko, shame is good. Shame is right. Shame works.

Interrupting again, because she’s wrong: Sociopaths do feel shame. They feel it very intensely. The problem is that their damaged ego has erected psychological defense mechanisms that involve the evasion of responsibility through the externalization of blame. Sociopaths rationalize their feelings of shame, lash out at anyone who makes them feel bad about their guilty secrets, and try to play the victim. (“DARVO — Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender.”) Understanding this aspect of sociopathic behavior was what enabled me to unlock the riddle of Brett Kimberlin. One you understood Kimberlin’s shameful motive, everything else about his hideous behavior made a lot more sense. And, yes: Shame is good. Shame is right. Shame works. We return to Megan McArdle:

In the small groups we evolved to live in, shame is tempered by love and forgiveness. People are shamed for some transgression, then they are restored to the group. Ultimately, the shamed person is not an enemy; he or she is someone you need and want to get along with. This is how you make up with your spouse after one or both of you has done or said something terrible. . . .

Except, of course, (a) tribal societies shun or murder those who offend their basic code or honor, and (b) many marriages end because people cannot forgive their spouse’s transgressions. Folks, I apologize for my repeated interruptions. I agree with Megan McArdle. I like Megan McArdle. I want her to like me. So why do I keep interrupting her to make all these niggling little points? But never mind. This is not about my glaring personality defects. Megan McArdle continues:

On the Internet, when all the social context is stripped away and you don’t even have to look at the face of the person you’re being mean to, shame loses its social, restorative function. Shame-storming isn’t punishment. It’s a weapon. . . .
Outrages are identified using the least charitable, most literal possible reading of what someone wrote or did, rather than trying . . . to think of what they could have meant by it, giving them the benefit of the doubt where two readings are possible. Things that were stupid and thoughtless are turned into deliberate outrages that could only be the work of hardened psychopaths. . .
But forget whether the shaming is excessive. Does it even work?
To be sure, a lot of folks certainly seem terrified by the possibility of being attacked by roving bands of verbal vigilantes. Yet I notice two things about these fears that raise some questions about the tactic’s usefulness. First of all, the fears are strongest among people who are politically allied with the shame-stormers. And second, the people who are afraid don’t fear being found out for their dark transgressions; they fear being unjustly attacked.
Twitter makes it absurdly easy to shame someone. You barely have to take 30 seconds out of your day to make an outraged comment that will please your friends and hurt the person you’ve targeted. . . .
This sort of tactic may buy silence, though it is likely to be the most effective on people who already agree with you and simply said something infelicitous. What it cannot buy is community, beyond the bonds that build between people who are joined in collective hate.

You can and should read the whole thing. It was that phrase — “people who are joined in collective hate” — which caught my eye in McArdle’s piece, for this reason: Most conservatives cannot comprehend the intensity of hatred that motivates and unites the Left. Any attempt to out-hate them is futile. For example: No matter how much you hate Amanda Marcotte, you can never hate her as much as she hates you.

Amanda Marcotte exudes an all-encompassing hatred from every evil cell of her wicked anatomy. She is also compulsively dishonest, because a vile sadist like Marcotte fears nothing so much as she fears the exposure of her despicable hatefulness. Once you understand that, once you have unlocked the hidden shameful motive of Marcotte’s otherwise mystifying madness, everything else makes sense.

Like I say, “Scratch a feminist and a kook bleeds.”

Also, “Bad causes attract bad people.”

So I am grateful to Megan McArdle for her essay on shame-storming, and apologize again for my repeated interruptions. Nobody’s fault but mine.




 

In The Mailbox: 04.20.15

— compiled by Wombat-socho


ADMINISTRIVIA
Now that tax season is over, I’ll be taking the time I used to spend in the tax mines and splitting it between blogging and getting ready for the move to Las Vegas. So Live at Five will be back tomorrow, a book post that’s been stewing for a while will be served up later this week, and who knows what else might happen?


OVER THE TRANSOM
Proof Positive: The Plant Whisperer
Doug Powers: There Is No “H” In Spontaneity
Twitchy: “Prove Him Wrong” Instapundit Challenges Press To Counter Ailes’ Hillary-Loving MSM Claim
Shark Tank: Gov. Scott Ready To Sue The Feds Over Obamacare


RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Power: Former Playboy Model Michelle Manhart Fights To Protect Flag From Hateful Lefties
American Thinker: Why Hillary Can’t Be In The Moment
BLACKFIVE: Stock Photos – Sometimes Not So Cool
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: What Trigger Warnings Hath Wrought
Conservatives4Palin: 2015 New Hampshire Republican Leadership Summit
Don Surber: No To Transgender “Rights”
Jammie Wearing Fools: Jon Stewart – “I Live In A Constant State Of Depression”
Joe For America: Children Forced To Scream Vulgarities In NH Elementary School
JustOneMinute: Occupy McDonalds
Pamela Geller: Terror Group CAIR Demands Protection For Muslim Students If Geller Speaks
Protein Wisdom: College Apologizes For Serving Mexican Food During SF Event
Shot In The Dark: Silva Lining
STUMP: Obamacare Tax Watch – The NYT Notices And I Spike The Ball
The Gateway Pundit: BBC Busted! Far Left Media Caught Fixing Political Debate
The Jawa Report: Allen West Responds To Military Memo Telling Soldiers To Hide From Islamic Terrorists
The Lonely Conservative: Prosecutor Gave Lois Lerner A Pass On His Last Day On The Job
This Ain’t Hell: Sharansky Asks “When Did America Forget It’s America?”
Weasel Zippers: Hollywood Moonbat Cher Blames California Drought On Fracking
Megan McArdle: Doc Fix May Hit A Wall – Doctors
Mark Steyn: A Contemptible Man Punches Down


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The Crazy Is Always There

Bill Schmalfeldt ranting, 2011. (Image via Thomas Anderson at Vimeo)

Deranged cyberstalker Bill Schmalfeldt was in court today in Carroll County, Maryland, facing charges of violating the peace order that prohibited him from contacting John Hoge. Reports that Bill would be representing himself in this case inspired much mirth online. It’s strange how, from a perspective of sanity — you know, among people who have an actual life — these weirdos seem to come and go. There was a time, a couple of years ago, when Schmalfeldt’s bizarre antics were a subject of regular updates here, but once he stopped harassing me, I stopped paying attention to the Neckless Wonder. Yet his insanity persisted to the point where now Schmalfeldt went to trial — and got off with a stern warning from the judge. Meanwhile, in Alabama . . .

Remember Roger Shuler? Sure you do.

He’s the Democrat lunatic who became Shelby County Jail inmate No. 288928 because of his bizarre vendetta against Alabama Republicans. Shuler came to my attention because, in 2012, he was promoting various lurid smears against me and others who had been targeted as enemies of Brett Kimberlin and Neal Rauhauser. Just another crazy weirdo on the Internet who had to push it to the limit:

A Shelby County blogger, who spent five months in jail before agreeing to remove stories from his website about the son of a former governor, has now been ordered to pay $3.5 million in a defamation lawsuit filed by a former campaign manager for Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange.
The blogger had written about an alleged affair between Strange and the campaign manager.
Jefferson County Circuit Judge Donald Blankenship on Monday entered a default judgment against Roger Shuler and his website Legal Schnauzer for $1.5 million in compensatory and $2 million in punitive damages. The judge wrote that all the elements for the judgment were present, including that a false and defamatory statement was made.
Jessica Medeiros Garrison, a Birmingham lawyer, filed the defamation lawsuit in 2013 against Shuler. She had managed Strange’s 2010 campaign for Alabama Attorney General and served as Chief Counsel and Deputy Attorney General in 2011.
“The facts are clear and the judgment speaks for itself,” Garrison stated in an email Tuesday to AL.com. “The absolute and blatant disregard for the truth has to come with consequences. I am very happy to finally be in a position to set the record straight,” she wrote.
Bill Baxley, one of Garrison’s attorneys, also said the ruling “speaks for itself.” He said he doubts his client will be able to collect any money from Shuler, who had his house foreclosed upon a year or so ago.

In 2013, I wrote an American Spectator column about Shuler, “Crazy in Alabama.” I also wrote a column about another Internet weirdo, Barrett Brown, “The Kook Who Knew Too Much.” In case you missed the news, Barrett Brown got sentenced to five years in federal prison.

Bill Schmalfeldt, Roger Shuler, Barrett Brown — some of my friends wonder how it is I manage to attract the attention of so many lunatic trolls. It’s as if I exude a magnetic force field of craziness, but the mystery is actually not so mysterious. About a dozen years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled me a “neo-Confederate,” and this was amplified by leftists (including gay columnist Michelangelo Signorile) who claimed I was a “white supremacist.” At the time, I was working as an assistant national editor at the Washington Times and my bosses advised me (“advised” in this context being a near-synonym for “ordered”) not to respond to these accusations. This enforced silence was unpleasant, as I was of course eager to refute these smears, but my bosses were probably correct: If your enemy is lying about you, why publicize their lies by commenting about them? The SPLC is a reprehensible organization that has subsequently been implicated in inciting violent maniac to attack the Family Research Council. To be smeared by the SPLC is a badge of honor and yet, because I did not immediately respond to the accusations against me when they first targeted me, this gave rise to the Internet Legend of Robert Stacy McCain, White Supremacist — with consequences that have been at times comic and at other times tragic.

In September 2009, while I was covering the Tea Party rally in Washington, D.C., Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs (whose blog had once been fairly important among conservatives) decided to unload the SPLC/Signorile “white supremacist” on me, and I fought a two-week blog war to prove my point: Charles Johnson is a worthless damned fool. Everybody at that time recognized that CJ had gone of the deep end. He had started losing his grip in October 2007, when he began smearing Pamela Geller as a “neofascist,” and his slow descent into madness (ranting against “creationists” and “climate denialists”) had been watched with quiet chagrin by Charles’s former allies. Once he attacked me, however, Johnson’s defection to the Left suddenly became a matter of public knowledge, and actually got noticed by the New York Times.

The Little Green Meltdown was big news back in 2009. It had the incidental effect of creating a sort of residual echo for the Internet Legend of Robert Stacy McCain, White Supremacist. Because there are many friends who can vouch for my bona fides, this doesn’t really bother me — “Don’t Give a Damn About My Bad Reputation,” as Joan Jett said — and my indifference to this really seems to make some people crazy.

Every once in a while, usually after I’ve had some notable success, my Twitter timeline will suddenly get a burst of craziness from trolls who think they have discovered the Hidden Secret of Right-Wing Racism. What has actually happened, however, is one of two things:

  1. Some idiot did a Google search and came up with the same stuff that I already dealt with back in 2009. “Asked and answered,” but the troll doesn’t know this.
  2. One of the Usual Suspects (perhaps one of Neal Rauhauser’s sockpuppet accounts) has decided to replay the same tactic that has failed so often before.

Now, I’ve got better things to do with my time than constantly reply to the same nonsense, so I usually ignore this stuff. “Oh, look, another idiot with 72 Twitter followers calling me a racist.” The problem is that some of these trolls become obsessed with me. Barrett Brown once wrote an entire book chapter about me, which his publisher rejected because who the hell cares about Stacy McCain, right? I’m just a guy with a blog. I’m not a politician or a TV star. Furthermore, there is the evidence that Sherlock Holmes would call The Dog That Did Not Bark: If I am really such an odious hatemonger, wouldn’t I occasionally, y’know, monger some hate?

That is to say, wouldn’t a white supremacist be blogging about white supremacy? Obviously, this isn’t who I am, because this is not what I do. Yet there is a certain type of person who thinks, “A-ha! I’m an expert at this Internet Detective stuff, so I will prove what an awful racist this guy is! I will expose him for the Evil Right Wing Hater that we all know he must be! And then I will become the Most Famous of All Internet Detectives! People will love me!”

So they run off chasing that phantom and, when they fail, they become convinced that I’ve played some kind of dirty trick on them by evading their Internet Detective skills and they go nuts. This explains my tendency to attract crazy trolls and, speaking of which, Charles Johnson has created a Secret Blog Commenting System that will allow him and his dwindling mob of kooks to discuss their weird obsessions without fear that someone will screen-cap their insanity.

Here, I’ve got $20 that says this latest Wile E. Coyote Acme Rocket Skates™ genius plan will fail. What will happen, I predict, is that someone inside the Secret Blog Commenting System will say something that pisses off Charles Johnson, resulting in one of his periodic spasms of ban-the-dissenters fury. Screen-caps of the Secret Blog Commenting System discussion will then be published, with embarrassing consequences for Charles & Friends. Of course, this will be of interest only to those of us who remember who Charles Johnson was, back when he really mattered, which was many, many years ago.





 

It Seems As Though @KurtSchlichter Doesn’t Hold Her Majesty In High Regard

by Smitty

Great outing from the Colonel at Townhall:

. . .let the liberals solve this problem for us with their bizarre determination to nominate that glass-jawed, email-deleting cuckoldette. Yeah, non-coastal America is dying to elect someone who reminds everybody of their first wife, including women and the never-married.

The main thrust of Schlichter’s piece, though, is a cavalry charge up the Lefty middle.  Tap that glass jaw. Call the Lefty’s bluff via the legal system. It’s not a bad plan, given lots of time and resources.  A few questions for the Colonel, though:

  • Can you offer a breadcrumb or two? Your next couple of books could be How To Go To The Legal Mat With The Lefties, and What To Do About The Gastropodic Slime After You’ve Gone To The Legal Mat With The Lefties.
  • Can we part out the work? Quite a few conservatives view legal interactions like being covered with gastropods. Is supporting the ACLJ a possible option?
  • What about the problem of legalism, itself, as the issue? Many fear that, in wrestling the Lefty gastropods, we risk becoming them. What are your recommendations for skeletal conservation?

via Instapundit

Crazy People Are Dangerous

Deborah E. Frisch, Ph.D., is due in court Monday:

The former University of ­Oregon professor released from jail [March 30] after pleading guilty to making a false report against a Eugene police officer is again behind bars on similar charges.
Deborah Ellen Frisch, 53, is facing a charge of initiating a false report and a probation ­violation in the previous case.
According to court records, Frisch returned to her home on Modesto Drive on Monday after being held in the Lane County Jail for 39 days and within two hours of her release called the Eugene Police Department’s nonemergency line.
During that call, court records show, Frisch accused two police officers who served a search warrant on her home of having sexual relations in her bed and leaving behind bodily fluids and sexually transmitted diseases.
Frisch said in the recorded phone conversation that she wanted to document the event because she was afraid she would get a venereal disease, the document states.
She insisted an officer come to her home or she would call 911, according to the report.
Police said 11 minutes later, Frisch called 911 to make a similar report, asking that “someone document a crime scene by the pigs at the Eugene Police Department,” the document states.
She was arraigned on Friday.
Frisch, who has a doctorate in psychology, was arrested in February for three counts of stalking after police accused her of repeatedly harassing a city police officer, another city of Eugene employee, and the director of a local nonprofit agency. Those charges were dismissed eventually, but not before Frisch accused a female officer of sexually assaulting her. She entered an Alford plea to a charge of false reporting Monday and was sentenced to two years of probation.
She is required to undergo a mental health evaluation.
For several years between 1988 and 2001, Frisch taught at the UO psychology department. She then taught at the University of Arizona but resigned in 2006 after writing inflammatory online comments to a conservative blogger.

Oh, that Deb Frish! You remember this notorious moonbat who thought she could use the anonymity of the Internet to make obscene and perverse suggestions against Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom:

Frisch, 44, said she quit her $32,861-a-year part time position not only because she fears for her safety, but because she regrets the [the University of Arizona] ended up in the middle of what was intended to be a “sick joke.” . . .
“These people think I should be incarcerated, that I’m mentally ill or that I should be shot,” Frisch said during a telephone interview from Eugene, Ore., where she is living now. “This whole thing has been crazy to me. People have spent their whole weekend on this.” . . .
At first, Frisch said she was enjoying herself.
“I like to play with fire. I’m a left-wing Rush Limbaugh. I’m a writer and I like to fight with words. I’m a word warrior.”
Suddenly though, Frisch said, the conversation degenerated into disparaging personal remarks, many of a sexual nature. . . .
“I wrote something that would make him as queasy as they were making me feel,” Frisch said.

So she told the Arizona Daily Star in July 2006. Notice that Frisch tries to depict herself as a victim, employs the typical “It Was Just a Joke” defense, and suggests that this was just an Internet argument that got out of hand. That is to say, she engaged in rationalizations that were an effort to shift blame away from herself and evade responsibility.

DARVO — Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender:

DARVO refers to a reaction that perpetrators of wrong doing . . . may display in response to being held accountable for their behavior. The perpetrator or offender may Deny the behavior, Attack the individual doing the confronting, and Reverse the roles of Victim and Offender such that the perpetrator assumes the victim role and turns the true victim into an alleged offender. . . .

We have discussed DARVO syndrome before. It is most typical of sexual perverts, who make accusations of wrongdoing against others in an effort to discredit their accusers and elicit sympathy for themselves.

People engaged in DARVO are “abusive . . . indignant, self-righteous and manipulative,” they typically “threaten, bully and make a nightmare for anyone who holds them accountable or asks them to change their abusive behavior. This attack, intended to chill and terrify, typically includes threats of lawsuits.” You can click here to read about one of Deb Frisch’s lawsuits, in which she referred to lawyers as “shyster-vermin” and called a federal judge a “frocked cowf–ker.”

Could I explain the psychological causes of such behavior? Sure, but that’s not the relevant point. The point is that this type of personality and this kind of behavior is not unusual among Internet trolls. Remember what Deb Frisch wrote about Jeff Goldstein’s son:

I’d like to hear more about your “tyke” by the way. Girl? Boy? Toddler? Teen? Are you still married to the woman you ephed to give birth to the tyke?
Tell all, bro!

I reiterate: If some nutcase kidnapped your child tomorrow and did to her what was done to your fellow Coloradan, Jon-Benet Ramsey, I wouldn’t give a damn.

Somehow, Jeffy boy, I think you get off on the possibility of Frenching your pathetic progeny, even if it is a boy. You seem like a VERY, VERY sick mofo to me, bro.

You know, Jeff, I just don’t get it. You say, and I believe you, that a human female chose to procreate with you and you have produced a 2 year old progeny. . . .
So the poor bitch is dirt poor and that’s why she pretended you were worthy of procreating with?

Deborah E. Frisch, Ph.D., a professor of psychology wrote that.

This morning, I was trying to explain #AreYouBlocked to my wife. Why is it relevant that a campaign to “blackball” people in the videogame industry has been led by a person under psychiatric care?

In explaining the gravity of this problem to my wife, I mentioned Deb Frisch as an example of where the crazy people come from and what kind of things they do. Then, out of idle curiosity, I decided to Google Deb Frisch to refresh my memory on the specifics and found the Deb Frisch Timeline blog that has been updating readers on her madness for years:

October 14-18, 2010 — Repeating the activity which cost her a job in 2006, Deborah Frisch sexually menaces two young girls in Eugene Oregon. Frisch tries to hide from her crime by sending threatening emails to the victims’ father under a false name; when Frisch’s flimsy subterfuge is blown, she goes on a 72 hour blog/Facebook/email/telephone harassment frenzy.

There is a pattern here, you see: Deb Frisch makes lurid sexual accusations against others, and becomes unhinged when her wrongdoing is exposed.

“God gave them up unto vile affections . . . God gave them over to a reprobate mind . . .”
— Romans 1:26-28 (KJV)

Beware of reprobate minds. Crazy people are dangerous.