Give her hell, Jeff

A lot of people who read this blog on a regular basis are also readers of one of my favorite blogs, Jeff Goldstein's protein wisdom, so you guys probably know about this situation. But if you're not one of those readers, this might interest you. Actually, I'm not sure if "interest" is the right word...

You see, earlier this month (around the 4th of July, actually), a troll by the name of Deb Frisch showed up and started acting like a jackass. That's not so bad. After all, birds have to fly, fish gotta swim, and trolls generally annoy the hell out of people.

But then, she started to come unhinged in a serious way. She left a series of comments saying that she wouldn't mind if Jeff and his two-year-old son were murdered because she didn't consider Jeff to be "human." She also left suggestive comments about sexual molestation regarding Jeff's little boy. Over the next couple weeks, there was a shitstorm of controversy. Frisch, who was a psychology instructor (!) at the University of Arizona, resigned from her job and moved back to Oregon after pw fans deluged her department with angry messages about her reprehensible conduct. She made some half-assed apologies, but later claimed on her own blog (which I'm not going to link--you can Google it, if you're so inclined) that she'd been planning on quitting and moving back to Oregon, anyway, so it didn't really look like the act of contrition that she initially made it out to be. The story even hit the big time on Fox News. You can read about it here.

And then, things were relatively quiet for a while. Until last night.

Deb, or someone using an IP address very similar to hers, began posting really vile sexual comments about Jeff's family on this thread of his. She also left a similar comment at ace's blog. He redacted it, but you can find the details about the IP address she posted it from here. If you're not squeamish, Patterico has a screen cap of that comment (seriously, it's VILE--you've been warned) and a rundown of what went on last night.

In the end, Jeff has decided to suspend his blogging activities and pursue legal action against this woman, who needs to be stopped before this escalates into someone getting harmed in the real world.

Anyway, you might want to drop by Jeff's blog and give him a few words of support, or, if possible, a donation to his tip jar or paypal account. This is a bad situation for Jeff and his family, and all of his fans are pulling for him to get it resolved once and for all. After all, a Friday without excuses about why the armadillo ain't dancing just doesn't feel right.