re: #18 Barrett Brown

As amusing at that is, it’s a huge problem. So many firmly religious Americans see an assault on their most fundamental beliefs from every corner. This, as you’ve experienced for yourself, makes them rather paranoid.

Yep, some of these folks just freak right out even at the mildest humor. They’re on a hair trigger offense watch. We’ve had quite few LGFers flounce off over the creationism thing, which used to surprise me when it first started — some of them immediately mutated into rabid Internet stalkers, like werewolves that never turn back into humans.

I’ve had my own run-ins with the Disco Institute gang — they’ve posted several attacks on me at their medievalist blog. I’ve also been attacked by Answers in Genesis, Ken Ham’s storefront. So I’ve succeeded in making the right kind of enemies.