Why are they following me?

EEEK! I don't get it! Everywhere I go, there's someone with a weird or really scary username following my every move! I comment on a forum -- I'm a midget! My wife posts a YouTube video using my account, and I poisoned my dog! I'm asked to moderate a forum, and people get e-mails telling them I'm an evil bastard who banned Ann Coulter from her own website! AIIEEEEEEE!

No, folks, I'm not paranoid. In fact, I find it even a little entertaining that, two years after a "coup" to remove the EEEEVIL HERP as Coulter's administrator, they can't let it go. Now it would stand to reason, if these were normal humans, that once they got rid of someone they'd say "Whew! Now we can get on with life and never have to even think about this guy again!" But these apparently aren't normal humans. Because of a lack of accountability, and running short of butterflies to pull wings from (I hear they do this, by the way) they use this as some sort of entertainment when times are slow at the Coulter forum. And times apparently ARE slow. You see...

The "moderators" there, apparently drunk with power, ban people who post things on other forums favorable to me, or who post anything at all that they don't like on other forums for that matter. This is a policy that's starting to rankle more than a few people. It's not that this is a surprise, as I've pointed out this behavior in the past. However, they've apparently ramped it up a bit, which is good news for our little forum at Outcast Conservatives . The disaffected and crapped-upon seem to have found a forum where normalcy is back in vogue. One of them is apparently as astonished as I am that these people are so -- um -- nuts that they just can't let it go, and posted this at OC:

This is unbelievable!!!

Who in the hell has the time (or inclination) to stalk someone across the internet, through Youtube , or whatever, just to criticise or taunt someone who isn't even addressing them in any way?

Sheeesh! It is just flabergasting how petty and inane some people can be.

Your house looks fine to me....it looks 'lived-in" and warm.....but... who the fu*k should care besides you guys? Why should it bother anyone what your house looks like anyway?

And your carpets.....? What kind of loser looks at a fun video of your little dog having fun with a bug and notices your carpets, anyway? I didn't notice your carpets. I was looking at your little dog having fun!

Some people are just sick. I mean....truly sick! And if these were assholes that Herp has pissed off in the past, then I suggest that this proves that Herp's instincts about them were correct all along.

It's always nice to feel vindicated!

Yep -- when they run out of anything else they can think of to come up with, by golly they make fun of someone's carpets! Yep, you read it here, folks: CARPETS. WOO!

Now, Robert Schaufelberger, Coulter's webmaster, told me almost two years ago upon my ouster that this harassing behavior wouldn't continue. As many can attest, it has continued. I don't, as noted above, understand it. And I never know when it's going to show up. I can go for a while on the net without a peep, and then, boy, post a dog video and it's THE BIG OPPORTUNITY! We're talking two years, folks, and they haven't gotten over me yet. Could it be that they miss me? Could it be that they have too much money and want me to have some of it in exchange for continual false attacks upon my reputation? Hey! Maybe this will turn out OK after all!

Come on by Outcast and post your stories about how the very kind, upstanding, and ethical "moderators" at ACOC continue to bully, harass, and ultimately ban people for doing nothing other than not being allowed into the "in" crowd. Might be fun!

I'll just keep collecting information until I can start counting my money.

Herp

Man -- back to school again!

In two days I start at school teaching writing, Earth Science and Biology to high school students. Up to now, it's been up to the eighth grade, but these guys -- I dunno.

It was a little daunting to think about, but Meet The Teacher Night at school wasn't too bad, and they weren't all that scary. Coupled with the fact that apparently the last teacher had the knowledge of a rock and the personality of a turnip, I left feeling a little bit better about my chances.

I will say these high school kids are a different breed than what I had to deal with over the past few years. I'll have to toughen up a bit, but I have the feeling that if you show them you mean what you say, but that you're fair about it, they'll eventually figure out the routine (and so will I!).

First week's under the belt -- grading a chapter test this weekend, and we'll see if they figure out that it's probably a good idea to listen to the material in class and to study rather than to play with the new teacher all class period. In short, I don't have a lot of hopes for the first scores, but I figure it may snap a few of them back to reality.

Ah, high school.