Our old friend Pat is upset. Mighty upset. He doesn’t like it that I make fun of him every once in a while and, being the weapons grade dumbass that he is, he thinks that’s stalking. Of course, he always did have a problem with that idea and a Bryan Fischer-like ability to project his own behavior on others.
Hey Ed.
I’m just gonna say this. You keep up the stalking, and I am just going to do it. I am going to pull the trump card and post your real address. I do have it and I will post it, if you keep it up. I’m tired of your stalking and mocking of me and my family.
So, cut the crap, or it’s going up and I’ll just deal with the consequences, if any.
First and Last Warning.
Thanks for the chuckle, Pat. And the trip down memory lane. Last time you tried that you posted my uncle’s address, not mine (we have the same name, so it’s not the first time we’ve been mixed up). So just in case you have in mind doing that again, I’ll save you the trouble. My address is 237 Stephanie Court, Belding, Michigan. I’d be concerned about you showing up here, but that would require leaving your parents’ basement. And having a car. And not being far too pathetic to do anything but rage incoherently on your website that makes a MySpace page look subtle and understated.
And just for the record, Pat, since I know you have trouble with the concept: Responding publicly to what someone else wrote publicly and criticizing what they write is not stalking. Putting someone else’s address on line and telling people to pay him a visit, as you have already done? That’s stalking. I quote no less an authority than you, when someone posted your address on Wonkette three years ago:
Oh, and to the liberal tools who called my house and posted my address. Ever heard of stalking laws?
Update: Awww, that’s so cute. He went ahead and put up an entire blog devoted to me, Ed Brayton Exposed, and put up my address. And he got it right this time too (well, he got the address right; he did misspell my name in the URL though). Congratulations, Pat! I will henceforth cower in fear that one of your seven readers will bum a ride to my house someday and pee in the front yard or something. The site is actually registered to Keith Levenson (which may just be the blogspot whois, not the actual blog owner; I have no idea how that works for a site like blogspot), but the writing is pure Pat. He claims to have found it, but the writing is a dead giveaway.
We here at this blog, feel that Ed Brayton has gotten away unscathed by these attacks long enough. So, we are going to fire the first shot, figuratively, across his bow…
By the way, we are told that this is an section eight apartment, because Edward is too lazy to get a real job and by a real house. Because of this, he lives with a bunch of poor people.
Awkward use of commas? Check. Can’t spell even three-letter words correctly? Check. Weapons-grade projection? Check. And then he puts up a bunch of pictures that I’ve put up on my blog over the years, including a picture of my desk with the caption:
Ed’s Desk, I guess being a anti-Christian bigot pays pretty good, doesn’t it Ed?
And another of my microphone (actually the microphone that the radio station loaned me for my radio show, which I no longer have):
Ooh, Ed’s got a big microphone! That is for calling all those mean old Christians nasty names! Again, bigotry must pay awful good!
Contradicting himself only a few sentences apart? Check. Random capitalization of words that don’t need to be capitalized? Check. And then a picture that I put up from a trip to Las Vegas with a few friends, of us having dinner at Rick Moonen’s excellent seafood restaurant at Mandalay Bay, with this caption:
Man, all this guy does is eat. Notice that chick that is not wearing much. Gee, we knew you were a secularist, Ed; but hookers? Geez, you can’t do any better than that? Has Ed been tested for AIDS lately? Just wondering.
Actually, that’s the wife of the guy sitting next to her, obscured by the tower of seafood. If you could actually tell her identity, I’d probably get pretty pissed off about this one. But you can’t. The “about” page is more of that godawful writing we’ve come to expect from Pat:
This blog was set up, because there is a person among the human race, who believes that it is his duty to persecute the Christian Conservative community. All the while demanding that his personal information never be revealed. Well, we happen to think that this is unfair and are going to rectify that situation…
The owners of this blog, and yes, there are many; will not be held responsible for anything that might happen to Mr. Brayton, as a result of our blogging. We figure that if Mr. Brayton is that stupid to do that which he is doing and is not smart enough to conceal his identity and whereabouts; then that is his problem.
Also too; No, Mr. Brayton, we will not remove this blog, nor your personal information, ever.
Random, constant and incorrect use of semicolons? Check. Fake persecution complex? Check. Hypocrisy? Check. Congratulations, Pat. You’re a wingnut. And this part especially cracks me up:
Relax, Pat. If you were anything but a lazy git sitting in his parents’ basement raging away at everyone, I might actually feel threatened by this. But I don’t. I’m amused by it. You’re just so cute when you ball up your little fists, stomp your little feet feet and let out a primal scream. It might be time for your mommy to change your diapers or bring down a pacifier.
It’s especially funny to be accused of bigotry by such a rank bigot. Let’s set the wayback machine for 2009, when Pat got his panties in a bunch over a single Republican — Rep. Anh Cao, who is Asian — voting for the health care reform bill and launched this racist tirade:
@AnhJosephCao You Bastard piece of shit fuck! GO BACK TO Saigon, South Vietnam where you fucking BELONG GOOK!
My Uncle served in Vietnam all he could stab this Country in the back. @samuel @levihenry @kerrence @tonyyeung @paparatti @Yeggo @frautoasty
Some of us, have not forgotten what happened on Dec 7, 1941 either! @samuel @levihenry @kerrence @tonyyeung @paparatti @Yeggo @frautoasty
@tonyyeung That’s because LIBERALS like YOU LIED about the damn war, ya sland-eyed ASSHOLE
I’m really starting to distrust ANYONE of Eastern Descent. 1st it was John Yu, then it was Obama’s guy saying we should repay China.
I’m head fucking serious… Al-Qaeda is not our Worst Enemy. The East is man. China, Japan, Vietnam, all of ‘em. #tcot #hcr #killbill #VTO
Remember ’41 people, this was their revenge on us. Ceo is a fucking Commie Plant in the G.O.P. #tcot #hcr #killbill #VTO
@FoxieNews Ya think? That rat bastard sold the G.O.P. up the river! and After all the Americans that went to ‘Nam and Died. :-/ Pissed.
@samuel They had it coming after what they did to us at Pearl Harbor!!!!
@TexasRV Not to mention that Yellow man Cao that sold us up the damned river.
Whack Job my ass…. that bastard slant-eyed son of a bitch sold the G.O.P. up the fucking river and he knows it!
And here he was talking about the Seattle PD shooting a black man:
For putting a hamburger-headed looking Negro thug out of his own damned misery, the Seattle Police Department deserves a metal of freedom. That is right, I said it, I am glad as hell, that this black thug is dead. Truth is, this black bastard should have been executed, long ago, for his damned crimes in the first place. This is why; I believe that death penalty is a sane solution to our Prison overcrowding system. However, because we live in a liberal society, that believe that dirtball thugs like this have rights too; most States in America do not have a death penalty in them and dirt bag black bastards like this continue to roam the streets and fill our already overcrowded prisons…
I know, some of you, most likely liberals are going to say that this is a racist posting. I got one thing to say; I am a white and proud motherfucker and I am sorry that you are not. Besides, we all know that the black race is not exactly made up of civilized human beings anyhow.
Bryan Fischer would be proud of this level of sheer obliviousness to his own psychological projection.
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richardelguru
November 15, 2012 at 2:43 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
You have to give Puke his due.
(It says so at the bottom of his page. I quote: ‘Giving a cowardly weasel his due.’)
composer99
November 15, 2012 at 2:45 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Didn’t Pat win the Bryan Fischer award some time last year?
carolineborduin
November 15, 2012 at 2:49 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@composer99 No Pat won the Bryan Fischer metal.
steve oberski
November 15, 2012 at 2:52 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
If Pat wins another Bryan Fischer award does that mean he has to give the old one back ?
And speaking of that, just when are the award cerimonies ? And what does the award look like ?
Taz
November 15, 2012 at 2:53 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Now that’s genius!
Ed Brayton
November 15, 2012 at 2:57 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Taz: It is, also too, and additionally as well.
reneehendricks
November 15, 2012 at 2:58 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I left a comment – but, of course, it’s moderated. I’ll never understand the stunted idiots on the side of theism.
imrryr
November 15, 2012 at 2:59 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
You know, with a title like Ed Brayton Exposed, I was expecting something a little different than what I got.
F
November 15, 2012 at 3:00 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
This Pat has serious issues. I think being stalked is probably the least of them, especially considering he isn’t being stalked.
I wonder what Pat’s comment would be regarding women who are actually victims of stalking.
Gretchen
November 15, 2012 at 3:00 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Pat, you are a parody of yourself.
marcus
November 15, 2012 at 3:03 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“Didn’t Pat win the Bryan Fischer award some time last year?”
Perhaps not that usually goes to hypocrites that are at least coherent (or possibly at the very string somewhat grammatical sentences together). This crap qualifies as neither.
Who Knows?
November 15, 2012 at 3:03 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I have to wonder what Pat uses for a desk. When I read the comment he made about it, I pictured something like a solid oak or some expensive hardwood. But no, it was just a normal work desk.
marcus
November 15, 2012 at 3:04 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
supposed to be at the very least
Stephanie Zvan
November 15, 2012 at 3:07 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The real question, Ed, is whether you’ve submitted any stories about yourself for him to publish.
savagemutt
November 15, 2012 at 3:14 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The previous ceremony had to be cancelled. Pat couldn’t get a ride from his mom.
It’s just a mirror. But none of the recipients have ever been able to see themselves in it. Perhaps they’re all vampires.
Scott Hanley
November 15, 2012 at 3:17 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
There’s a thoroughly nebulous line between fools deserving ridicule and the mentally ill who deserve pity. I’m more and more inclined to place Pat on the pitiable side. How horrible it must be to be him.
Ed Brayton
November 15, 2012 at 3:24 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Who Knows:
It’s not even a desk, actually. It’s two five-foot folding tables at right angles to form a V. Gives me more room than a regular desk and much easier to pick up and move when necessary.
A Hermit
November 15, 2012 at 3:31 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
For full effect you have to read that stuff out loud comma in Groucho Marx voice semicolon including all the comma punctuation comma also comma too period
jameshanley
November 15, 2012 at 3:34 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I have to agree with Scott. This long ago reached the point at which I cringe to see these posts. I really think you’re making fun of a mentally ill person, and that’s just not cool.
brucecoppola
November 15, 2012 at 3:35 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Belding? I had you figured for one of them Grand Rapids city slickers!
baal
November 15, 2012 at 3:37 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Pat’s persecuted all right. It’s not by Ed though. It’s the demons in his mind (metaphorical ones).
baal
November 15, 2012 at 3:38 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Also, having gone there to Pat’s post despite promising myself not to; I want to set up a free graphic design charity that would help the right to produce decent websites. No one should have to suffer a visit there.
imrryr
November 15, 2012 at 3:42 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ah, yes… the Antichrist brand of folding table, model number IH8AMERICA. I hear they’re made of wood recycled from burned down churches. George Soros will automatically send you one if you ever say anything bad about any conservative ever.
dean
November 15, 2012 at 3:44 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
No, for full effect you’d need to have Victor Borge read it.
sinned34
November 15, 2012 at 3:46 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So Ed’s address is out in the public domain now? Watch out Ed, somebody might show up at your door unannounced, wielding a six pack of beer and a desire to have a friendly chat.
I figure it’s more likely than any of Pat’s readership showing up.
Recreant
November 15, 2012 at 4:10 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I propose that we all submit outlandish stories about Ed and see how many we can get posted to the site
eric
November 15, 2012 at 4:11 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I was picturing a tall trophy with a bust at the top. The trophy is not straight, but bends backwards in a circle until about half of the bust’s head is hidden in the center of the trophy’s base.
hexidecima
November 15, 2012 at 4:29 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Sweet. Keep giving Patty more rope to hang himself. I do always enjoy Christians bearing false witness against others. It just warms the cockles of my heart. Thank you, Oh TrueChristian, for being another wonderful example of how Christianity is nothing magical at all.
skeptifem
November 15, 2012 at 4:42 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
He seems unstable and obsessive. It seems unwise to engage with him.
Ed Brayton
November 15, 2012 at 4:43 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’m finding it quite amusing that Pat keeps claiming that he isn’t the one who put up that site, now putting up a post at Ed Brayton Exposed as someone else saying he’s never even heard of himself. But as documented above, the writing is a dead giveaway. I mean, look at this:
This is just funny. On the very same day that Pat accuses me of “persecution” for criticizing him, another person who has never even heard of him — wink, wink — just happened to create a whole new blog accusing me of persecuting “conservative Christians” (sorry “Conservative Christians” — can’t leave out the pointlessly capitalized word). And then Pat puts up a link on his blog telling people to send their “persecution” stories to that other person who has never heard of him. And they both not only write badly, but write badly in exactly the same ways (the recurring incorrect use of semicolons, in particular, seems like a pretty obvious sign). Nice try, Pat. It’s you. Or you have an equally stupid twin somewhere.
hinschelwood
November 15, 2012 at 4:45 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
#28. Pat is an utter fuckwit.
noastronomer
November 15, 2012 at 4:48 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Shades of David Markuze/Mabus. Hopefully Pat will get the assistance he needs soon.
Meanwhile the rest of us will have to make do with our foam padded desks.
Mike.
coffeehound
November 15, 2012 at 4:54 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
That sentence alone makes that who is writing a damned Rhodes Scholar…
noastronomer
November 15, 2012 at 5:09 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ed,
I think you entered the whois lookup information incorrectly. Keith Levenson is the registrant name for https.com. all sites with URLs under wordpress.com would have the same registrant, which is ‘Domain Admin, Automattic, Inc.’.
I don’t believe it’s possible to discover the individual behind a wordpress (or blogspot) site through whois. You’d need to get that information from wordpress (or blogspot) through a profile page if available.
Mike.
evilDoug
November 15, 2012 at 5:19 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ed, you have to quit calling him “weapons grade” – unless it is legitimate to call a bowl of cold, seriously overcooked macaroni, sans fromage, “weapons grade”.
Doughy pantload is already taken. Is suppurating Arschloch too harsh?
Mr. Upright
November 15, 2012 at 5:29 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Man, Ed. You really live in BFE.
anubisprime
November 15, 2012 at 5:31 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Well he certainly seems to be a Christians Christian, he must be very proud of his intellectual prowess!
shouldbeworking
November 15, 2012 at 5:37 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I thought you were talking about Pat Robertson for a moment. You really know how to rattle some people’s cages. If I’m ever in the neighbourhood, I’ll stop by with some pizza and beverages.
Funny Diva
November 15, 2012 at 5:41 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
A Hermit @18:
It’s even funnier a la Victor Borge, with a distinctive sound-effect for each punctuation mark…
Spanish Inquisitor
November 15, 2012 at 6:11 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ed Baytone Xposed? Who’s Ed Baytone?
rturpin
November 15, 2012 at 7:04 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So, Ed, if you don’t get that bottle of scotch this Christmas, it’s may be because the delivery truck is frozen in the ice in one of those damnably cold fly-over states between Texas and Michigan.
Either that, or I gambled away my Christmas gift money. ;-)
Ed Brayton
November 15, 2012 at 7:07 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Heck, the street I live on isn’t even on Google maps or GPS. It’s a private cul-de-sac.
samanthag
November 15, 2012 at 7:10 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Since your address is on here, are holiday greetings welcomed? I figure his 7 readers may send you some ugly crap. I thought some more cheerful greetings may offset the ugly.
SamanthaG
Christoph Burschka
November 15, 2012 at 7:13 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
False advertising.
Suido
November 15, 2012 at 7:54 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Nawww, the blog has been deleted. Those anonymous authors sure had some convictions.
Quantum Mechanic
November 15, 2012 at 7:56 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Recreant:
Help, help!!! I’m being oppressed!
ethanhobart
November 15, 2012 at 8:17 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Well, the site is gone. And I was going to submit a story about Ed getting Bibles banned from both of Ypsilanti’s strip clubs.
geocatherder
November 15, 2012 at 8:27 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ed, publishing your address is an epic failure. Now, when you post one of your delightful descriptions of your barbecuing, you’ll have readers lined up down the street, plates in hand.
rturpin
November 15, 2012 at 8:51 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ypsilanti has only two strip clubs left? Michigan is going to hell in a handbasket.
gshelley
November 15, 2012 at 8:58 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The blog seems to have been deleted already
Who Knows?
November 15, 2012 at 9:00 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
imrryr @23 LOL.
Ed Brayton
November 15, 2012 at 9:16 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
LOL. He deleted it. And now he’s taking one of his famous breaks from blogging (he’s done this several times before, declared that he was leaving forever and then showed back up a day or two later; this time it’s only for a few days, he says). And he has a message for me:
Apparently he is as oblivious to real mirrors as he is to metaphorical ones. I’m always fascinated by this bizarre persecution complex some people have. They think criticism is persecution or an attempt to destroy them. It’s really quite irrational. By the way, notice that identical and incorrect use of the semicolon. It’s one of the reasons why there was zero doubt in my mind that he was the one who put up the site he now took down (though I imagine he will now claim that there’s no connection at all between taking it down and his sudden decision to disappear for a few days — it’s purely coincidental, I’m sure).
A Hermit
November 15, 2012 at 11:54 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yes, Victor Borge is the way to go…I’d forgotten that one…
speed0spank
November 16, 2012 at 2:03 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
What an idiot. For someone who seems the type to be absolutely livid that Section 8 exists, he dure has no idea how it works, apparently. Although that is quite far down on the list of what makes this guy a tool.
desertyeti
November 16, 2012 at 2:04 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Thank you Ed,for bringing this completely insane blog to my attention. That blog is pure comedy gold. It is like watching a train wreck… I just can’t stop looking. I thought I would repost this gem of a post, in case you overlooked it, to wit:
http://thoughtsandrantings.com/2012/11/09/next-someone-tells-you-that-liberals-are-the-enlightened-ones/
“Next someone tells you that liberals are the enlightened ones
Show them this.
Now obviously this guy was just using his appearance to get money and succeeded. However, allow me to share something with you.
I am a fat guy okay? Sometimes we fat people do sweat, and because of that, we sometimes do put off a little body odor. I have been a situation once, where I was being harassed because a little body odor that I had, because I was doing physical labor. Finally, I said the magic words, “Get off my ass, or I will see you in court!” Well, not long after that, I ended up losing the job assignment, as it was a “head hunter agency” job. But I still feel to this day, that I was; one being pestered, because I was overweight and two, because I was white. My boss was black. His name? Ronald Slaughter. That man hated white people with a passion and it showed. He works or did work for Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Michigan.
So, I can see how this guy feels. The sick thing is; this is hipster Los Angeles. These are supposed to be enlightened Liberals.
Oh, the job, I drove straight truck for a “head hunter” agency. It was “PC refresh” project. Yes, it was labor intensive, believe me, I had the sore back to prove it. I remember ol’ Ronald Slaughter, how he told me once in his office, “Ain’t no body give a fuck what you think, whitey.” I never forgot that; never saw racial hatred from blacks to whites before.
Needless to say, that changed my attitude towards black people. That and my cousin getting killed in Detroit in 1994.
By the way, Ron Slaughter; if you see this —- screw you Jiggaboo… Devil”
Not only did he admit that he is overweight, despite insulting you for the exact same thing, but he actually admitted to getting fired from a job for body odor, and even threw in some ignorant racist drivel to boot! It is like a perfect trifecta of stupidity. I also noticed a post where he admits to not working which kind of paints his prior rants about various minority groups being moochers in quite a different light.
Pat, if you are reading this, keep doing what you are doing buddy, never change….
desertyeti
November 16, 2012 at 2:10 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Also Ed, I guess he took down his silly wordpress site about you and now is claiming that it never existed…. what a toolbag.
I think I am going to keep reading though, this shit is comedy gold!
Walton
November 16, 2012 at 2:25 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
QFT. I said this years ago when “Pat” started becoming a regular feature here. This isn’t funny or clever – you’re going out of your way to mock someone who clearly has serious problems. Just disengage and leave him the fuck alone.
StevoR
November 16, 2012 at 2:45 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
For a second there I read that as “a lazy git shitting in his parents’ basement – lol.
Yeah some of us never outgrow toilet humour do we?
They say you can judge a person by their enemies so I guess that means you need better enemies -’cept o’course its not the sort of thing one really needs at all!
Good response to a very silly if also pathetic and pitiable individuals “crusade” (if thats the right word? yeah prob’ly is!) against you.
Ed Brayton
November 16, 2012 at 3:25 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Oh, this gets better. Now he’s accusing me of putting up the anti-me site. And it makes me Satan. And Hitler too.
It’s like a mobius strip of stupid.
Ed Brayton
November 16, 2012 at 3:27 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
For the record, making fun of Pat is hardly a regular feature. I take a look at his blog every 3 months or so at most. As for those who think I’m picking on someone who is mentally ill, I am left trying to figure out how one distinguishes between mental illness and just being an ignorant, hypocritical, stupid racist. He looks a lot like the latter to me and I think that makes him more than fair game.
brianwood
November 16, 2012 at 5:37 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
When people come to pee on your lawn, the help fertilize,but it is important that they all not pee in the same place. I’d welcome them, but direct them to the various spots needing a bit of a boost.
StevoR
November 16, 2012 at 6:33 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@ ^ brianwood : I believe its good for lemon trees right?
***
@ Ed Brayton :
Conservative with a capital ‘C’? Movement title? Emphasis by capitalisation? (Is that a commonm is understanding of what capitals are for in the non-national geographic sense of the word?)
StevoR
November 16, 2012 at 6:51 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
What way again?
Hmm … Doesn’t sound very babblical to me.
He that lives by the blog dies by the blog? Gentle Jeebus meek and mild .. and severely incontinent?
StevoR
November 16, 2012 at 6:53 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Fucken html fail. That’s :
Natch.
StevoR
November 16, 2012 at 6:55 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@63 ..and I’ve just spotted this fucking typo too :
Dammit! Sorry.
democommie
November 16, 2012 at 7:46 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ed’s being attacked by Pat is something like the U.S. being attacked by the Grand Duchy of Fenwick; except for the Q-bomb and the humor of Peter Sellers and company.
Pat is a pathetic fuckwad and may just be clinically insane. There is no doubt that he is a mean spirited, bigoted and hypocritical piece of shit. Like Mr. Mabus, Pat’s being ignored has not made him mellow.
democommie
November 16, 2012 at 7:49 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“It’s a private cul-de-sac.”
Ed ARE one of the aleets! also, too!!
chadwickjones
November 16, 2012 at 8:29 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
LOL! You can’t fix stupid…
steve oberski
November 16, 2012 at 8:32 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Presumably using his liberal/left/pinko/homo/muslim/astheist/feminist super powers.
Matrim
November 16, 2012 at 8:55 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Did I miss a major post somewhere? You don’t have your show any more? What gives?
Or is it the microphone you don’t have anymore?
skeptifem
November 16, 2012 at 10:34 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Pretending people expressing concern are out to call you a bully is an easy way to dismiss the obvious problem with your plan, but I can’t stop you. If you want to keep screwing with someone who clearly has trouble letting go that’s your problem.
Jim
November 16, 2012 at 10:53 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Ed, I’d argue that criticism IS an attempt to destroy, but that it’s a positive attempt. You point out weaknesses, and when those weaknesses are fixed, whatever you’ve criticized is stronger.
The problem is that when someone sees that weakness as a strength, they see criticism as a threat. I don’t know how someone could see bigotry and poor writing skills as a strength, but there you are.
dugglebogey
November 16, 2012 at 10:54 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I suspect that the most dramatic thing that will happen now that your address has been made public is…
You’ll probably get some extra Xmas cards.
Except they will be from Atheists so they will all say “Happy Holiday.s” You know, what with the war on Xmas and all.
kermit.
November 16, 2012 at 12:23 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“I may be unpleasant to stand near, dull-witted, bigoted, determinedly ignorant, lazy, constantly angry, and still living in Mom’s basement, but thank God I’m white.”
kermit.
November 16, 2012 at 12:36 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Skeptifem, I largely agree with you. But the problem is, I suspect there’s no fundamental difference between Pat and other Yankee anti-science, misogynistic, superstitious, and chronically angry jerks.
We’re talking about 20-30% of the population. They have the mental equivalent of metabolic syndrome – which is so common that at one time it was considered simply “aging”, but we now know that it’s largely avoidable. But like metabolic syndrome, ill-informed authoritarianism requires a lot of work and some knowledge to avoid in those so inclined, and is most easily fixed when we get to the “patient” when young. I see no reason to think that Pat is psychotic, schizophrenic, OCD, or some such. But a predisposition to black and white, authoritarian thinking perhaps, combined with an unfortunate environment and a lifetime of habits have shaped a very disagreeable and not very effective personality.
We could leave him to his basement, I suppose, or try to reason with him. I don’t think he will ever escape the darkness he has cloaked himself in on his own.
erichaas
November 16, 2012 at 1:30 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Figures he’d delete it before I got chance to read all about Ed’s dirty little secrets!
spartan
November 16, 2012 at 1:33 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
skeptifem:
“Pretending people expressing concern are out to call you a bully is an easy way to dismiss the obvious problem with your plan, but I can’t stop you.”
Where exactly are you getting that Ed is pretending that people expressing concern are out to call him a bully exactly? It sure ain’t in what you quoted. Perhaps you should try using a little less straw next time.
Ed Brayton
November 16, 2012 at 2:51 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Matrim –
I ended my show a couple months ago so I could concentrate on writing my book.
speed0spank
November 17, 2012 at 10:41 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“when the eyeballs show up in disappears” – So does he think you made a fake blog for your own personal amusement , even though you would obviously know it is fake, since you would have made it in that scenario? That is highly illogical. If someone made a fake blog they would no doubt want a lot of people to see it, duh.
bradleybetts
November 19, 2012 at 11:56 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
“You know who you are, you fat bastard freak. I hope you drop dead of a heart attack and a stoke too.”
How do you die of a stoke? Is he planning to attack you with a poker? :-S
Tony ∞ºQueer Duck Hivemind Minionº∞
November 19, 2012 at 10:44 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I think this year he will get Bryan Fischer himself as an award.
Tony ∞ºQueer Duck Hivemind Minionº∞
November 19, 2012 at 10:48 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@19:
If Pat is mentally ill you would have a point.
Is he? Or is this an internet diagnosis?
dingojack
November 19, 2012 at 11:26 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Tony ∞ºQueer Duck Hivemind Minionº∞
(#82) – bronzed and with his butt expertly buffed by Stephen Fry, I assume.
(#33) – I was wondering where all these Internet PhDs in Psychiatry and Psychology came from too.
Additional questions that come to mind are:
Are your degrees recognised by the AMA? How many hours of clinical experience do you have? How did Pat get referred to you? How often did you ‘see’ him? Did you charge him for your services?
In other words: is this your considered, professional opinion, or just another wild stab in dark by another rank amateur*?
Do tell.
:) Dingo
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* just like the rest of us
dingojack
November 19, 2012 at 11:30 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Oops (#83) not (#33). Apologies to noastronomer and Tony ∞ºQueer Duck Hivemind Minionº∞ for the mix-up.
Dingo
jameshanley
November 20, 2012 at 9:11 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Uh, to all who worry about my credentials as a psychologist, I have none. I’m a rank amateur. But I have no problem saying that Pat’s behavior strikes me as qualitatively different than typical wingnut behavior. And I think the decent thing to do is to err on the side of caution. If I’m wrong, there’s no real harm in ignoring an idiotic wingnut. If I’m right, there’s real harm in badgering someone with a mental illness.
If you’re comfortable abusing someone who might be mentally ill, that’s your choice. But damned if I’ll respect it.
Tony ∞ºQueer Duck Hivemind Minionº∞
November 21, 2012 at 12:37 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
jameshanley:
I’m not comfortable abusing someone who *is* mentally ill. But I don’t have enough information, NOR am I qualified to make a diagnosis that Pat suffers from mental illness. Can you expand on your comment about his behavior being different than typical wingnuts?
Ed Brayton shows just how ignorant he really is | Ed Brayton Exposed
November 15, 2012 at 4:19 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
[...] Brayton says the following, while accusing some blogger that we have never even heard of before — of running this site: Update: Awww, that’s so cute. He went ahead and put up an entire blog devoted to me,Ed Brayton Exposed, and put up my address. And he got it right this time too (well, he got the address right; he did misspell my name in the URL though). Congratulations, Pat! I will henceforth cower in fear that one of your seven readers will bum a ride to my house someday and pee in the front yard or something. The site is actually registered to Keith Levenson (which may just be the blogspot whois, not the actual blog owner; I have no idea how that works for a site like blogspot), but the writing is pure Pat. [...]