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July 08, 2006
white flag

I wrote some inflammatory comments at a blog by a guy named Jeff Goldstein
called protein wisdom that infuriated many bloggers and commenters. Many of
these bloggers emailed my boss at the University of Arizona to tell on me.

In hindsight, the things I wrote were over the line of nastiness. I
apologize to Mr. Goldstein.

I have resigned from the University of Arizona so there is no need for
other enraged people to write to administrators there. I am a temporary
worker there and I am in Oregon for the summer.

Some blogs have posted comments that I perceive to be physically
threatening. I have contacted the FBI and the Pajamas Media staff to
determine how to proceed with this aspect of this unbelievable experience.

My intention in this post is to de-escalate the situation. The comments
that started this all were nasty, not threatening. But I feel very
threatened by the response.

Jeff - I lost my job. You won. Could you call off the troops?

UPDATE: I have been receiving emails alluding to the fact that I got fired.
I was not fired. I resigned. I was not pressured to resign. I just sent my
boss an email explaining what was happening and told him I thought it was
best for all involved if I resigned.

Protein Wisdom has been down since this all started so it is not possible
to see all the comments and everything that led up to this. People are
posting snippets of what I posted that have been embellished with
references to french kissing and other things I didn't say.

When and if protein wisdom comes on line again, it will be hard to tell
what Jeff added or deleted to the transcript.

I have been trying to get in touch with Pajamas Media to discuss some of my
concerns about what has been published at Black Five about this issue. I
feel threatened by some of the comments there.

If someone at pajamas media or better yet, froggy from Black Five, could
email me, that would be great.

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