Comments on: Steve of ‘Homer’ blog left an anonymous death threat on my friend’s blog. Bad move, Steve. https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/ Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:30:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/#comment-541585 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:30:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/#comment-541585 As you tell the story, Steve exhibits all the characteristics of a murderous psycho like the one that killed people in Pa a few days ago. Their ranting is filled with hatred of the world, they make obtuse threats of killing people or wishing them all dead, they’re self-righteous, etc. The problem is that people ignore them thinking they’re a harmless loony, and then when they get their hands on guns or make up explosives like McVeigh, everyone says “oh, I never saw it coming; he was such a nice quiet little boy.”

That dumbass needs to be checked out and if he’s got any guns they need to be confiscated. Steve sounds like a terrorist to me.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/#comment-541584 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:39:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/#comment-541584 I’m geting that too, and I got it earlier on another blog on that network.

Somebody should tell Google they are borked.

]]> By: Kitty'sBitch https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/#comment-541583 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:35:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/#comment-541583 Okay, so he apologized to Stephanie, but what about all the Red Sox fans he insults on his blog! Who will stand up for them!

First they came for the Sox fans, and I did not speak out because I was not a Sox fan…

Will we never learn?

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/#comment-541582 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:35:17 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/#comment-541582 Probably not your network, Mike. Google won’t let me at my own blog right now, either. At least it’s still sending me the comments.

]]> By: Mike Haubrich, FCD https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/#comment-541581 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:21:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/#comment-541581 For some reason the security at our work network isn’t allowing me to access “Almost Diamonds” this afternoon so I don’t get to watch the show….

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/#comment-541580 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:01:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/#comment-541580 Ooh, baba ghanoush.

]]> By: Jason Thibeault https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/#comment-541579 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:35:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/#comment-541579 (Outside forces like religion, or libertarianism, or having read Ayn Rand. I’m a hateful troll, I know. 🙂 )

]]> By: D. C. Sessions https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/#comment-541578 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:28:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/#comment-541578

Greg, I do have to quibble, myself, though. I’m supposed to do all the entertaining and I don’t get any cookies?

In sympathy for PalMD, I’m not doing online cookies right now. On the other hand, the garden is burying us in eggplant. How about baba ghanoush and some home-baked herbed bread chips?

]]> By: Jason Thibeault https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/#comment-541577 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:17:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/#comment-541577 Oops, my apologies, Stephanie. In fairness, though, I never call the mentally disabled “retards”. And the ones I have interacted with in the past are some of the kindest, sweetest people I’ve ever known. I usually save the word “retard” as invective for people who truly have every opportunity to become an educated, functional and contributing member of society, but have their spark doused by outside forces.

Whether this guy is legit in his apology or not (I’ll be the first to say it smacks of “OMG I GOT CAUGHT”, but there’s no way to tell one way or another except by judging him on his apparent honesty), he espouses some otherwise horrifying beliefs, and I have to wonder how much is the fault of outside influences retarding his thought processes.

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/#comment-541576 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:56:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/07/steve-of-homer-blog-left-an-an/#comment-541576 Steve has showed up in the comments of my post to say he suspects friends he left alone with his computer after talking about the original argument and to apologize. The apology has been accepted.

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