More on the Blog Libel/Harassment/PhD Committee threatening story

Goldstein has the all the details. The only thing I have to say about this is the motivation of Wallace Hettle, the asshat who is at the center of this. I've never met Hettle (that I know of, but you never know who you have stood next to on the elevator at conventions), but I think I know his type very well (as it's pretty endemic among my colleagues).

Let's be charitable and say this: You can't spell U-N-I-M-P-O-R-T-A-N-T without UNI. Or, as their motto goes, "The University of Northern Iowa offers a world-class university education, providing personalized experiences and creating a lifetime of opportunities, from a group of embittered, cynical never-was PhDs who really, do we have to breathe the same air as these scummy, trailer-trash, Bush voting staff members? I mean, I'm all for Marxism and Derrida and the working class, as long as they don't park so damn close to my '89 Saab and keep my office spic and span."