It Just Won’t End, Will It?

Another day, another story about Deb Frisch in the media making her out to be the victim.

Frisch admitted to submitting the postings, but on Monday said she never meant her comments to be read as a threat.

Bloggers contacted UA psychology department head Alfred Kaszniak calling for Frisch's resignation or dismissal.

Kaszniak received Frisch's resignation letter Saturday. Along with it, he got "a couple hundred" e-mails – about Frisch.

"It's saddening, for anyone who is a reasonable person cannot but deeply regret the kind of incivility that seems to characterize so much of what passes for political debate on the Internet," said Kaszniak, who hired Frisch four years ago to teach a required undergraduate course in resource methods.

When I spoke to Ms Everett-Haynes on the phone, I had a sense that she wasn't going to be fair — though I didn't really expect this. 1) Ms Everett-Haynes writes: "Tensions escalated after Frisch and Goldstein swapped comments about North Korean missiles. The conversation on national security and political warfare got personal." Actually, as I told Ms Everett-Haynes, Frisch's belligerent commentary had started days earlier and had steadily escalated. In fact, by the time Frisch started posting in the thread on Korean missiles, she was already quite well known to my regular site commenters, having made herself quite the nuisance. Ms. Everett-Haynes, for reasons that are unclear to me, decides to highlight a comment of mine, one that she never asked me about during our phone interview. Let me put my comment — "We're pragmatists, Deb. I think if push came to shove, we'd rather just shoot you" — into context. First, here are Dr Frisch's comments in the thread Ms Everett-Haynes highlights that lead up to mine: 1) "If dem gooks attack Hawaii, I say we should nuke ‘em all! Remember Hiroshima, you slanty-eyed mofos! We will MICROWAVE you mofos if you look at us the wrong way! Bring it on, gooks! Bring it ephing on!" 2) "Please don’t take this the wrong way….but if everyone who lurked in the comments section of this blog drank the kool-aid RIGHT NOW…..the country and the world would be better places. Just my two sense." At which point I responded the suggestion that if I and ther rest of my commenters committed suicide, the country would be better off by quipping, "We’re pragmatists, Deb. I think if push came to shove, we’d rather just shoot you, then watch a “700 Club” marathon and enjoy some honeybaked ham." I don't know why Ms Everett-Haynes left off the end of my comment — perhaps because it showed that I was making light of Frisch's constant suggestion (made over and over on the site) that every conservative is a "kooky kristian," and that my comment was a direct and snarky rejoinder to Frisch's own invitation to a mass conservative suicide.