Well, I’ve gone and done it again. Add William Yelverton, Middle Tennessee State professor of da Funk!, to the list of leftist “academics” (and certain conservative “pragmatists” who, surprise! — Yelverton references for support) I’ve caused to lose their shit over the years.
In this latest installment, Yelverton, who has shut down other blogs with his antics, is attempting to use similar tactics to shut down mine: though he’s been repeatedly asked to leave — his “contributions” to any thread here tends to be something “he” (under a barrage of different names) cuts and pastes from some unattributed source that doesn’t address the post proper in any but the most oblique way — he decided he has a “right” to spam here, so he posts under multiple names, uses an IP anonymizer, sockpuppets some of the regular commenters, and lately, has taken to expressing OUTRAGE! over his treatment on protein wisdom (though, under names of his imaginary friends and girlfriend).
I don’t know why I have this effect on certain people — nor do I much care — but I will say this: if it’s a court battle Yelverton wishes to wage, one of the two of us has actual experience in the matter.
I pity him, really. But more so, I pity his university and his students. His hard-left hatred for all things “conservative” (which evidently extends to my classical liberalism) has this poor wretch up at nights trolling my blog under multiple names and multiple IP addresses, playing multiple parts in a blog drama of his own creation. It has him feverishly researching Colorado legal statutes, looking for ways to pretend he’ll bring me up on felony libel charges. It has him pretending to be his own girlfriend — or some concerned passerby — who happens (somehow) to know the history of William Yelverton, and his dealings with me over the course of several months (during which time, incidentally, his own blog got maybe 3 comments from people not responding to his douchebaggery on protein wisdom).
Like certain other left-wing professors before him, his compassion for the working man is a sham; after being made to look foolish in substantive debate, the first thing leftists like Yelverton (and some conservative pragmatists) do is attempt to belittle me for (what they believe to be) my employment status, or how I’ve decided to raise my family. Supposed supporters in good liberal standing of NPR, PBS, and the “arts,” they nevertheless like to point to my pledge drives as somehow untoward — even though every penny I raise is voluntarily given by people who appreciate the work I do and the community I’ve created. Perhaps if I secured a government “arts” grant and forced the taxpayers to subsidize my classical take on, say, The Knack, William would be on board; that is, perhaps the crassness I’m condemned for is that I actually ask, instead of simply justifying the taking by pretending that my work is for the public enrichment.
At any rate, so goes the latest protein wisdom blog drama. Professor Yelverton, whose stated hatred for — and clear bias toward — any and all conservatives has not as yet brought him under scrutiny by his university, has, I’m afraid, decided to escalate matters.
He should have done some research first. Escalation is something I’m not terribly afraid of.
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Over/under on the number of hours before thirstytities, fr*sch, caric, daleyrocks, dustin, or nk send him an ‘attaboy’?
I think the first 3 will. timmah too.
I suppose it’s technically true, but I still cringe at the notion that someone with a high school education and three degrees in guitar performance can be referred to as an academic.
Yelverton : academia :: Ketchup : vegetable.
Or, alternately: Yelverton = vegetable
Well, do note that he’s using some of Frey’s bullshit to “prove” his case.
Nice.
William the racist hilljack demonic midget skin flute playing plagiarizing Yelverton who is scared of brown people that can spell seems to have constructed an impenetrable cocoon of stupid in which he will live his pathetic existence.
You had me at “William Yelverton is his own girlfriend.
I’m in Florida but will happy to provide free legal advice. Though honestly, I’d recommend LTC John if I needed valid legal advice. Mine is generally questionable . =)
Willie the racist, hilljack, skin-flute player is a pathetic jackass. And what some would call his “perseverance” is really just a manifestation of his OCD.
His laughable use of the “libel” card, played as arbitrarily and capriciously as the “race” card, is weak tea indeed; considering his name, place of employment, and geographic locations were detailed many times by members of the PW commentariat in numerous threads; threads where William was actively engaging in his “multiple personality” schtick merely to facilitate his odious and insulting behavior.
Behavior that he would never, never!, have the courage to engage in face-to-face with anyone.
At any rate, given his knowledge of being “outed”, by knowledgable commenters, his lack of objection at the time, and his lack of requests to the proprietor to have the revealing comments striken, coupled with the widespread knowledge of these facts by many people, I would say, in an old-school way of course, that his libel “suit”-prosecuted by his attorney girlfriend who is both devastatingly hawt and muuuuuuuuuch younger than he is-has just 3 chances of succeeding:
1)Slim
2)Chinaman’s
3)None
Libel cases are generally worthless to celebrities like ol Willie. Rules are different for guitar heroes suckah (h/t to Bob for ebonical inspiration;)
If he thinks he can maintain his annonymity behind sock puppets and IP proxies perhaps he should look into the rules of disclosure for a civil lawsuit.
So Willie whats on your harddrive?
Yep, discovery is a bitch, Danger.
As much as I hate to say it, I don’t think cat porn is a crime.
Unless it’s, you know, kitty porn.
Yelverton might be the dumbest man on the internet. I’m still a bit nervous that we’re accidentally making fun of the disabled.
“I don’t think cat porn is a crime.”
Can a cat legally give consent? I understand that guitar serenades can be quite intoxicating and a tempting tactic for someone that is lonely.
As it stands his conduct here has been grounds for termination and if he keeps pushing it not only is that inevitable but he’ll be an unemployable laughingstock as well. Teaching guitar and manning the drive-thru at Hardees are about all he’s professionally qualified to do, so I can’t think of anyone with more to lose than a minimally-educated 50 year old midget.
Howdy, Jeff-
Just saw your account of the background to O’Donnell’s lawsuit against the think tank for which she worked, and I was curious as to where you got the information from.
Of course I wasn’t referring to anyone specific in my last post.
But; if your harboring feelings of guilt, I’d suggest admission of a problem is the first step in recovery.
Now he is playing the “I know a black person” card. Ironic how he wants to use the force of law and his institution to criminalize speech. Fascist.
Some contact info:
MTSU School of Music
P.O. Box 47, MTSU
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
Ph: (615) 898-2469
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Connie Bowrey
Music Admissions/General Information
Phone: (615) 898-2469
Fax: (615) 898-5037
E-mail Connie Bowrey
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Claudette Northcutt
Executive Aide (to the Director)
Phone: (615) 898-5924
Fax: (615) 898-5037
E-mail Claudette Northcut
More douchebags. Yelverton is drawing them out of their hidey holes.
the comment is here
It’s linked in the post, isn’t it?
At any rate, it was posted here — and that person plucked from somewhere else. Can’t speak to its origins, honestly.
Also, Barrett, I should note that Pablo raised a legitimate concern over at least one part of the account in the comments.
Gotcha, must have overlooked the link, thanks.
Damned spam filter….
Just an FYI… You have my support. Linking over.
-Pat
Hey Willie: Concierto de Aranjuez roolz! Fantasía para un Gentilhombre droolz!
Never trust a man who plays the wrong Rodrigo in public, is my motto.
Methinks he’s not pretending.
Jeff. You’ve been on a fucking tear, lately. I’m in awe. If I had any spendola to toss your way, I’d do so. As soon as I start seeing an income, I’ll forward you some scotch scratch.
I’m trying to figure out what motivates someone like Willie. I guess it must be overwhelming narcissisim coupled with a very strong sense of entitlement. He thinks the thoughts of others that he agrees with must be shared (cut and paste), and must be accepted as fact by those he deigns to bless with them. He also seems to think the he gets to make the rules on private property, and that private property must somehow obey legal restrictions against the government suppressing speech.
His shallowness of understanding is quite remarkable.
I still think this is just a desperate cry for attention. He might very well be slipping into madness, but in the least he should consider seeing a professional about his obsession. Most people, when asked to leave, do so. The fact that he refused to do so is telling.
Can you imagine what it would be like for a psychiatrist to do an evaluation of a 50+ year old drooling idiot midget that sock puppets people, impersonates others, repeatedly visits places he has been repeatedly banned at, and is otherwise a classic mendoucheous twatwaffle?
Must be some True/Slant investigative instincts there.
As an aside, it sure undermines Willie’s whole, “Jeff Goldstein is hateful, hate-mogering, spiteful guy”, for Jeff to be cheerfully conversing with BB after he used PW as the basis for that hit-job at a now-closed site that will go unnamed.
Unless, you know, it’s a conspiracy…
Barrett is a douchenozzle. Objectively. But not as big as Willie the racist hilljack skin flute player Yelverton.
Libeling a state institution and state employee brings this to a new level
That’s level “over the rainbow,” for those of you keeping score at home.
ALL OF Y’ALL ARE JUST HATERZ!11!11!
You’re obviously jealous of Willie’s abilities to pull such a devastatingly hawt and muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch younger attorney girlfriend.
It’s the seranading.And the kitteh skillz.
AND HIS MAC!
I think it is the above ground pool that really does it for me.
Bob, just because Yelverton’s left hand is still a virgin when it comes to jerking off, doesn’t mean it’s young.
Or being such a homo that you name your house.
NTTAWWT. The coffee table made out of PVC pipe is a nice touch.
What’s the house’s name JD?
I dunno blake, he seems like a lefty to me :)
Besides, he might go for a little strange every now and again; gettin’ freaky wif hiz soopah-bad self…
I think I just made myself ill.
So that explains the humongo spotlight in that picture. It’s for the nights when Willie is feeling frisky and teh kitteh is trying to hide in the backyard…
Oh, Allah, Bob. I cannot remember. The idea that he named it makes me laugh so hard that I forget the name every time. It is one of those names that sounds like it should be on a southern mansion.
Who knew that the Doors were able to write about a future guitar hero teacher?
Completely off topic, but, go Tigers!! (the Twins took their magic number down to 6..Tigers win takes it down to 5)
And now, back to our regularly scheduled mocking of pseudo intellectual poseur and all around douchenozzle, William Yelverton.
Cedarcrest!
Cedarcrest. Resume laughing.
No JD, for real?
You mean Willie named his house to sound like a grand plantation? Let’s forget about the pretense of that whole thing, and of his life for that matter, for a moment.
Can you friggin’ imagine the field day he and other lefties would have with such a factoid? They’d make it indicitive of anyone’s approval of, and yearning for a return to, the days of slavery and a hierarchal society. It would be ABSOLUTE PROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOF! that you were a racist.
But when one of them does it? Why it’s merely a homage of sorts. A paean to their love of the exotic; of all things trans-national and multi-cultural.
Get it? For us, it makes us wanna-be slaveholders. For them? It demonstrates their love of diversity.
I can’t seem to get the link to post. Here’s another try:
http://tiny.cc/u02ke
Rosebud
Never noticed before but the cat’s name is Emma.
Poor, poor Emma.
Cedarcrest…
Isn’t that from the 80’s TV show Dallas? I mean, I personally never saw it, but it was about rich southerners I believe. We didn’t get satellite TV where I was in those days.
Cedarcrest sounds like a retirement home, not a grand plantation. Or an assisted living place –you know, where retards like Yelverton go when there’s no one else to take care of them.
Really Ernst,
I thought he wents to Middle Tennessee state to get taken care of-daily. His tenure assist his living, on the Tennessee taxpayers nickel…
I have to admit, I like the house.
Could someone who is actually worthy of the house please purchase it?
It’s a nice home, IMO.
That’s part of what I really don’t get about him. He has a nice place. He’s probably pretty good at the guitar thing. What the fuck does he have to be so damn angry about?
Some people can never be satisfied I guess.
he hates gaia
If you don’t mind smelling like you just blew a Christmas tree then Cedarcrest is some of the best toothpaste on the market.
I gotta admit, I find some of these crazy trolls clinically fascinating. Science demands Yelverton’s brain scans!
It’s a nice home, IMO.
It’s in Nowhere, Tennessee, hence cheaper than dirt. Plus he’s a 50 year old man with no grown up responsibilities like, say, a family, so it’s not a home so much as a monument to what a loser he is.
It is not that horrible, and I am not mocking the house, I am mocking the pretentious midget hilljack ukelele strummer.
I wanna jam with this Yelverton cowboy next time I’m in the volunteer state.
He’s probably pretty good at the guitar thing.
Competent but not inspiring. He gets all the notes right and at the right tempo, and it ain’t easy stuff, but there’s no real life to it. Reminds me of when I used to program Bach 2- 3- and 4- part inventions into the computer because Bach very much lends itself to mechanical perfection (and it was fun to listen to each melody line separately). However, there was no spark to it, no human interpretation to add that subtle little touch that makes the difference between genius and competence.
I’ve got some classical guitar on my iTunes, and Yelverton ain’t no Fisk, Yepes, or Parkening. Not even close.
There’s not much in the Tennessee Free Wayback web archive, just 3 month’s worth, but this is interesting.
Abe and JD,
That’s what gets me.
The 50 year old posing as the sensitive guitar dude in the photograph is ridiculous. Maybe if he’s half that age, I might understand.
But that pic is just to look good for the chicks half his age.
It isn’t that hard to get chicks half your age when you’re 50 and pretty well established. It’s actually harder to get someone of the opposite sex who’s close to your own age at age 50. Because, you know, by that age, they’ve generally gotten better at spotting pretentious bullshit artists.
I don’t know about in Tennessee, Blake, but an average-looking guy his age who makes a very modest living ain’t getting 25-year-old chicks in NYC.
Re: the OT O’Donnell comment here is what is on her web site.
A rule of thumb is that you don’t name your Estate unless other people will call it the name that it is given, as opposed to simply calling it “Bill’s house. The one in the woods.”
Bob, I think the series you want is Falconcrest. Dallas was set at Southfork Ranch.
Give him a break, fellas. He’s got to draft his syllabus for “Pickin and Pluckin 101” what starts Monday.
Thanks SDN,
Like I said, I didn’t watch a whole lot of TV back in the day, I was busy and far from a commercial broadcast source.
Abe,
I tend to think 25 year old NYC chicks are in a class all by themselves.
Drat, Chicago tied it up..double drat…
One more post, this one ‘live’, from Wisdom is Vindicated. Seems since 2007, William has become even more feral. Just wait until after the November elections. We may yet see his head explode.
(Oh, ‘feets might not want to visit that site; there blogs a true Christian Conservative, Ned Williams, a salt of the earth guy and a definite godbotherer. )
I thought the part where he had the audacity to claim he had not impersonated me by name-jacking because he did not use my last name was cute.
“I’ve got some classical guitar on my iTunes, and Yelverton ain’t no Fisk, Yepes, or Parkening. Not even close.”
I think he’s the Zamfir of guitars and I’m willing to sign a afidavit declaring him the next jukebox hero. Willie, celebrities like you don’t get much sympathy from the courts. But if risking discovery is your idea of a thrill ride; carry on, cat lover.
That’s very cute, JD. Especially since we only know his identity because his persistently insane behavior prompted us to piece it together from the small clues he’d foolishly left.
Hmmmm….first he hijacks threads, now he instigates threads devoted to him.
– Wonder who’s winning that PR battle.
Jeff,
I’ll have you know he played on NPR! Several times, in fact
Make fun of his CV will you? Ha!
I got this bag of dog shit and a lighter, which porch is his.
Yelverton always impressed me as being unimpressive.
And yet when it came to politics and the GOP primaries in ’08, they decided to interview me — unemployable manbaby that I am.
Which suggests that even unemployable manbabies with no prior ties to NPR have more credibility on political matters than a strummer with an RSS feed set to ThinkProgress and Talking Point Memos.
Willie’s girlfriend ain’t that young. I’ve seen the pics posted on his blog and she’s clearly older than me (I’m 35).
I’m just goofin’ on the way he chose to describe her once Mike. He was obviously struttin’ like cock-o-the-walk for pullin’ a younger woman than himself. I’ve known guys like him before, that think they’re all that for dating young women.
Yeah, I know Bob. I remember Willie using the term “much younger girlfriend” himself on a few occasions. His penchant for tall tales seems to know no end. It’s like he’s his own sockpuppet.
If Goldstein is in fact innocent of impersonation and libel, I suggest he lay it all out on the table, including the IP of the comment where he impersonated Yelverton, the text of comment he allegedly changed and deleted, and the text of the alleged racist comment alleged by Yelverton.
Let’s see how confident Goldstein is. Send this above info to Yeverton’s chair so it can be then forwarded to MTSU legal counsel. Let’s see how a public university reacts to having one of their senior professors libeled and the university defamated.
I’m going to get a copy of his dissertation. Then I’m going to pore over it and look for plagiarism. When and if I find it, I’m going to report it.
Simple as that.
Unfortunately, I don’t have access to ProQuest or Dissertation Abstracts International from my home computer. Any of you have access from either your home or school?
Why don’t you lay it all out on the table and tell us who you really are, troll?
I suggest you eat a dick, AJB.
Or should I say, several more dicks.
NTTAWWT.
Oh. And we’re going to see how willing his university is to back a senior professor who spends his time bringing bad publicity to the school — be it through his harassment of me by refusing to respect my private property, or be it by way of his documented hatred for at least half the voting population of the US.
Sue away.
The internet is Jeff G.’s private property. Heh, tell that to the judge.
I’m pretty sure he said that he didn’t write a dissertation, rather he transcribed a piece of music for the guitar. I could be wrong, though.
I did learn something looking in over at Willie’s blog, and that was to take a gander at an internet Thesaurus for the terms “liberal” and “conservative”. Can’t say I was surprised at what I found, but the volume of bias seems a bit over the top.
Pathetic.
AJB is apparently jealous that William Yelverton is trying to out-stupid AJB. It is a contest.
sdferr – Did you notice how the Professor of Plagiarism doesn’t appear to know the fundamental difference between a dictionary and a thesaurus?
To say the truth JD, I haven’t paid him that much mind to have noticed. What did you see?
The Thesaurus is the ornery looking one with the bony headpiece and three horns, right? The nuns did better with grammer and palmer method than natural history and dinosaurs, I must admit.
Ugh – I just received a nickle-laden yardstick o’er the knuckles – grammer = grammar.
Imagine what the nuns must have done to poor Kelsey.
Jeff: Is this sweeps week?
Ask Mr Yelverton, cynn. For him, anything above a yawn is sweeps.
And PW, for God knows what reason. I suppose he thinks he’s babysitting us.
Whoa. Ghetto Nuns. Be very afraid.
I expect this comment will be deleted, so I’ll put it here too…
For the record, I fear all nuns equally.
No, dude. You don’t understand. When you messed with willie, you libeled a university. A state university. You have no idea how much trouble you’re in, mister. You have angered the Great State of Tennessee with your libelousness.
Were I you, I’d sit myself down and think about it over a nice Kentucky bourbon or two.
Oh, ‘Villiam’ is my personal years-old descriptor for ‘Vile’ ‘William’. I’ve been dealing with this dumbass for years.
I think I could take everything I’ve ever learned, flip it all on it’s pointy little head, and produce a perfect list of stuff willie doesn’t comprehend.
Wow, that’s just crazy.
Yeah, Serr8d. I wanted to see what happened when WordPress wrote him back with a “WTF???”
Oops, my comment makes slightly less sense without the moby’s.
Oh. There I go ruining the surprise.
sdferr – He culls his “definitions” from the thesaurus, as it fits with his little twisted worldview. Note also that he advances a “scientific” study that purports to show that liberals are better thinkers than conservatives.
I don’t care what anyone says…that right there is laugh out loud funny shit. Again, as when Ric Locke use to bat thor around, this is much like an orca tossing a seal around. It just ain’t fair.
AJB…meet me at the subway on 105th. I’m going to kick the living shit out of you. Cool?
– Two baby seals walk into a club…..
– Now I’ll just sit here quietly snarfing my Bacardi until Darleen or Carin get around to denouncing me for the annual seal joke.
BBH, you have mentioned that you have known or know NE Ohioans a few times lately. Did you live here at one point? Just curious. And Bacardi? I’m letting Rolling Rock be my artificial Ambien tonight. I’m poor. What can I say.
Rolling Rock? G-d help you.
Nice sdferr, straight outta Philly!
Tasty and cheeeeeeep
Rolling Rock reminds me of my yout. My normal poison is Magic Hat, but I’m poor right now. A desperate man has to do what a desperate man has to do. And sdferr, not cheap enough.
I’m enjoying a Fat Tire; a relatively new beer in this area. Out of Colorado, but better than water-thin Coors.
serr9d – There are about 4 cases of Fat Tire down in the basement.
[Garbling] a state institution and state employee brings this to a new level
Tampering with State Apparatus?
“felony libel charges”?
Huh. I suppose if he really tries that (felony?) it would be worth having Professor Reynolds post another of his “it isn’t wise to mess with bloggers” posts, and link here (with a plug to hit the paypal too!). Might crash the server with volunteers (pun intended) to help…
I suspect that this is a bluff.
He don’t know Jeff verwwwy well do he?
/Bugs Bunny voice off
Now I’ll just sit here quietly snarfing my Bacardi until Darleen or Carin get around to denouncing me for the annual seal joke.
I often take weekends off. I’ll let it pass this time.
“felony” libel charges???? wtf???
Libel is a tort, not a crime. There’s no such thing as “felony libel” because it’s a civil matter, just as there’s no “felony plagiarism” or “felony violations of homeowner’s agreement”. If it’s a felony it’s escalated to other crimes like assault or fraud.
Seriously, does this guy know anything? If he actually does try something, I would walk in and demand a restraining order to keep this obviously deranged freak off of my website.
“Let’s see how confident Goldstein is. Send this above info to Yeverton’s chair so it can be then forwarded to MTSU legal counsel. Let’s see how a public university reacts to having one of their senior professors libeled and the university defamated.”
MTSU legal counsel represents the University and will not come to the defense of a faculty member (this fact was made clear to us some years ago in an obviously unrelated matter). And I’ve seen how MTSU reacts when one of its faculty defames another (the university basically wanted the whole sorry episode to disappear). Here’s a clue, AJB: yes, universities do have a lawyer (or lawyers) on staff. No, they are not terribly interested in getting them involved in anything that might be remotely controversial. They largely serve to give advice on contracts and other run-of-the-mill matters. To sum up, I don’t know how confident Goldstein is, but I know for certain how confident he should be: very.
That’s gonna clog the toilet.