Later.
Back when all this is settled. Once and for all.
To those of you who’ve thrown some change into my tip jar, thanks so very very very much.
Here’s the situation as it currently stands: I have one generous benefactor who’s promised to help defray some of my legal expenses. But in order to see this through, I’m going to have to shelve at least one of my paid gigs. So if you have the inclination and the means, I’m certainly not going to scold you if you decide to throw some cash my way.
And I say this knowing many of you already contributed to my fundraiser. So please—and I mean this—don’t feel compelled. After all, it’s not your fault I blew that money on a new dedicated server and lots of tequila and Mexicali hookers.
Anyway, I’m hoping I won’t be gone long—perhaps I can even muster at least one traditional Friday posting—but as this entire episode is putting a strain on my family, I simply have to get it resolved before I can commence with the idiot dance that I do here every day.
Thanks for understanding. And thanks for all the encouraging and kind words.
Best to all of you,
Jeff
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second update: I’m trying to put together a paper trail of Frisch’s comments. If you have a blog and Frisch has commented on it, please send along the IP addresses she used and, if you can, a screenshot of her comments.
If you don’t have a blog but have found her comments elsewhere, please contact the blog proprietor and ask for the IP info. That would really help me out as I’m going to be busy dealing with law enforcement and attorneys.
Thanks so much.
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The IP used last night was 71.34.251.220, which resolves to Eugene, Oregon. If anyone out ther can find another instance of this IP being used, please email it to me.
Thanks.
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distant cousin of update update: July 30th update, by request. The incident in question is recounted here.
Stay safe. I’m so sorry you are the target of this disturbed person.
Hang tough, Jeff. Easy for me to say, I know.
Don’t be gone long, sir. And, like Sarah says, stay safe.
Best wishes. Hope you’ve got enough evidence to pin whoever’s up to this.
Looking forward to your triumphant return.
There’s gotta be something you can do. Until then, we’ll be waiting and praying.
What a shame. I’m sorry you have to go through this. Let us know if there’s anything we can do to help you.
I hope “once and for all” is sooner rather than later. Good luck.
I second Sean M’s sentiment.
Jeff, it’s not as much as I would like to send you, but some small bucks just went to PayPal in case you decide to have your attorneys do battle with her.
Best wishes to you and your family, Jeff.
And, watch your “six.” There’s no telling what such a disturbed person might do.
Do whatever you need to, in order to keep you and yours safe, Jeff.
ANYthing and EVERYthing necessary.
Sorry to hear it, Jeff. I hope it all works out for the best.
Your blog is one of the few highlights of an otherwise boring 12-hour nightshift. Do come back soon.
You want I should post dirty limericks until you get back?
Godspeed and good hunting, Mr. Goldstein.
tw: Live and let die.
I’m just an internet passerby, but having suffered a similiar (albeit much smaller-scale) attack of SUDDEN INTERNET INSANITY, I wish you the very best in riding out this mess.
Take care, Jeff. Hope legal recourse is fruitful.
Jeff,
I’ve said this at Patterico
But email Qwest’s Abuse Department @ and email all proof of Deb Frisch doing this especially the previous incident.
They will take action if the evidence is compelling enough and will cancel her internet service.
Well, she went and got frischfaced and posted some more nasty stuff, as Dwilkers posits over at Patterico’s. Explains why she can’t recall posting the saliva thing.
When are we going to see the Magic Girlfriend defense?
TW: children
I hear ya’, Jeff. And do what you’ve gotta do to keep you and yours safe. I’m being stalked at the moment as well, only not in cyberland. Scary, infuriating, and I’ve got two children to worry about because my psycho has shown up outside their school. Twice now.
Get armed. Seriously. The authorities can only do so much to stop this freak. The rest is up to you.
Hope to see you back here soon, amigo. Take care.
Our favorite wholly unimportant complete non-person moonbat got stupid again?
What’d she say or do? Do I really want to know?
It is amazing how hard liberals work to discredit themselves. For the thousandth time I find myself laughing at the irony – if every liberal in America just took a vacation for a couple years (to, oh, Brazil maybe?) and kept their mouths shut, they’d be more likely to get elected.
To summarize: fuck Frisch. Well, no, not really. I respect my penis too much.
Stay safe, Jeff.
And I second Amy’s remark: arm yourself.
Seriously.
But get a child-safety trigger lock.
Peace.
Deb Frisch is a perfect example of what Camille Paglia describes as ‘Behind their smooth, bland faces I saw the seething hatreds of Dostoevskian anarchists…more spiritually twisted than anyone I have ever encountered in my life.”
It isn’t the religious right that these twisted anarachist abhor, it is the ‘Breeder’ who is most offensive to them for such natural proclivity to pro-create represents the twisted anarchists innate failure to be naturally human.
Deb Frisch hates you Jeff because you are normal which is a constant reminder that she is not.
Oh… were we not paying attention to someone again…. guess she needed 15 more minutes of fame.
Make sure it’s her last Jeff.
Godspeed, take care of you and yours.
TW: serious psycho.
Yikes, that sounds too much like a line from a Western… careful Jeff (and you have my us.army.mil e-mail if you want any advice from an old ASA).
Aw, I am so sad to see this idiocy starting again. Stay safe, Jeff, and think about all of us who are wishing you well. You will be missed.
Bleh. Why the fuck can’t people just be fucking civil, win or lose. Shit like this is so goddamn ridiculous.
Good luck, Jeff.
Blessings on you and yours Jeff. Stay in touch and stay safe
Chin up, head down, check your action, and watch your sectors.
Dear Jeff,
Your site has made me think and made me laugh–what a brilliant combination.
You’re creative and witty, even if the language gets a bit saltier than I like–I can always get a drink.
This nastiness saddens me. Please do what you must, but hurry back; we need you.
Well, “need” is a bit too strong; I mean, I’m sure we’ll all survive; it’s not as if you’re oxygen or water or something like that.
But we will miss you.
Could the armadillo sub?
TW: certain people ruin things for everyone.
Take care Jeff. Thanks for the thoughtful and funny posts. Hope you work this out for the best soon.
TW: Make your time offline count.
Don’t sell him short. I think alot of people “need” people ilke Jeff. God knows there’s a shortage of common sense in the world these days; every site like this is important. Even if it serves only as a reminder that no, not everyone on this planet is an unhinged lunatic.
Best of luck, Jeff.
Hope this is over soon and without any more nastiness.
Look forward to your return.
This is recockulous.
And I’m betting 9 to 1 the armadillo ain’t dancing today. Unless by dancing you mean shouldering an assault rifle and digging in just under the front hedge; posting watch like a tiny nine-banded Rambo.
JG – Good luck, sir.
If at all possible with miniDo the whole blogosphere a favor and nail that lunatic to a wall.
She’s / it’s begging for it.
TW: I can’t believe she’s still trying.
Sorry bout that –
“If at all with minimal financial or logistical inconvenience to yourself,….”
There we go – I got distracted by the phone and forgot that I hadn’t finished that sentence!
The Chicago way.
Jeff,
I really like your blog and your writing. Good luck, and know that you have a lot of support.
Please remember that the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
Don’t do it Jeff. Stay on-line. Don’t give the coward the satisfaction of claiming a victory.
I said this at Patterico
I forgot to mention this. Since she’s a “Professorâ€Â, she might be trying to get a job at the University of Oregon in the Psychology Department although it’s ironic with her being a lunatic.
I suggest the same approach be done to her again regarding her job at ASU just so she gets the damn idea to lay off you.
Stop blogging? Are you outta your frickin’ mind? You can’t give up. Did we give up when the Russians bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no. Now is the time to go all Jack Bauer on her ass. I mean, if you wanna give up the stupid clock posts I can understand, but you can’t walk away entirely.
Remember: if you give up, the terrorists win.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Take care, Jeff. Thanks for everything, and we’ll be ready when you are.
TW: Start. Antonym: Finish.
The thing that sucks about this is that while I totally understand getting this taken care of once and for all, it’s a great victory for her to have got PW off the air (so to speak). Think how stoked she’s going to be at that.
But only for a moment.
I wonder if the journalists who wrote the newspaper articles would be interested in this… yannnow, they could write part 2; or in a couple of cases, print an apology to Jeff.
Just for clarification, it was the U of A that hired her, not ASU. As a former Sun Devil, I beg you to not associate this intellectual dullard with my fine, fancy alma mater.
TW: I believe Deb will soon jump off a cliff if no one pays her any mind.
Good luck and godspeed. It is probably too much to ask that it ever be settled once and for all.
Good luck with getting this resolved, Jeff. I’m a newbie here, but your site has quickly become one of my favorites.
I have to say, though, the fact that you haven’t hunted this person down to take care of things personally impresses the hell out of me.
Go get her champ. Then hurry back, I didn’t spend all week on a plane to miss my usual round of drug and dick jokes.
And all the smart stuff too, but I have someone read that for me.
TW: big teh winnar!
Jeff
Looks like Deb retreated to Eugene to live in her unibomber-style cabin and has gone permanently over the edge..
…or until the cases of cheap vodka she bought at BevMo run out.
Either way… create that papertrail with the authorities in CO and OR, ban her from this site, let the rest of us ban her from ours and do realize, Jeff, that a lot of us have your back.
Jeff, much love to you and the family.
You need any contributions for legal help, let us know.
I say screw Frisch – let’s all just keep coming back, posting in this thread, making up our own Shannon Elizabeth nipples jokes, discussing the great topics… this loon can steal Jeff’s attention from his blog, but she can’t shut us all up.
Viva Protein Wisdom! The armadillos! United! Can Never Be Defeated!
Chairman You, I took the liberty of correcting your history…
Jeff, you and only you know what’s best for your family. As much as I enjoy reading your thoughts, do what you have to. If you give up for good, hopefully we’re bright enough to lay blame where it belongs. And when you do return, we’ll be waiting. Good luck, and our thoughts, hopes, and/or prayers are with you and yours.
“Civilis”
Jeff, come back soon. Hope you can find a way to get her behind bars, or in a straightjacket, or something. You deserve the peace of mind, and she definitely needs the help.
tw: “results”. God willing, you’ll get some.
Yes, stay safe. Contact any and all authorities – and arm yourself. No one should have to put up with this kind of crap. Hope you can come back soon.
Turing word: control. Take control of the situation.
Jeff, good luck. Whatever you do, follow it through. We’ll be waiting.
*sniff*
We expect you to return as soon as it is reasonable.
While I generally disagree with most people here, I appreciate the general wit and intelligence and have been given much food for thought. Please stay safe and level-headed.
I was describing the beginning of this episode to a friend of mine and told him it was like watching someone just descend into madness.
And here we are again. The descent has completed; she’s absoilutely insane and getting pure pleasure in writing the foulest things imagineable in the most childish way possible.
I’ve taken PattyAnn’s suggestion to heart and dropped in a few as well. If this escalates further and a legal fund needs to be started please don’t hesitate to post it.
Good luck and God bless.
Jeff,
You have far more friends than enemies out here. And they’re a far better class of person, to boot. Don’t let the moonbats grind you down!
Jeff- Do what you gotta do, but while you are silenced, the idiots win.
You are loved, man.
Well this sucks.
That being said, I’m praying for you and your family. Peace be with you.
Are you confident that it’s not a sick copycat? Either way, best wishes for you and your family.
Jeeze, Jeff. I’m really sorry it came to this. I’ve got a one-year-old myself, so I completely understand you’re decision.
Thanks for all the great analysis & great laughs. I hope you’re not gone too long, but if you are, take care & be good.
Cheers.
Uh, hello there. Until Jeff’s return, I’d like to offer my services on this thread as the kind of Guest Host of PW. I’ll post some stuff about, you know, topics, and some weird jokes too, just like JG (tic tic tic boing! tic tic). And then you guys can comment on them, and there will be some good back-and-forth “bloggy action.” So let’s get started, OK? OK.
So, what’s in the news today? Did you hear about that Middle East stuff? Yeah, they’re all crazy over there. I think it’s the, ummm, heat. It’s real hot over there all the time, and I think that makes them… you know, crazy. There’s a Lebanese guy down the street who, since he’s been here in the cooler US, hasn’t been acting crazy, so I think there might be something to that.
So, how about the Democrats? Don’t get me started on them. Howard Dean sure is crazy. Although it’s not really very hot in Vermont usually, something sure made him crazy. “Yeeargh!” He looked like he was going to explode or something.
The lefty bloggers make no sense. They’re all crazy with their hatred for Chimpy McBushenstein — they should all get a nice cool drink of Democrat Kool-Aid and turn their air conditioners up, because they have obviously overheated their brains. Deb Frisch is insane and Sock Puppet Greenwald in Brazil has some severe issues if he has to pretend like he’s other people who love him. It’s really humid in Brazil aside from the heat! (Although, to be fair, the guy is Jewish, liberal, gay, and a lawyer—I don’t know how I’d do with all the negative abuse he must have taken through his life, so I mean, we should have some sympathy and hope he finds peace).
OK, this is not as easy as I thought it would be, so I’m just going to get my thoughts together, and then try again, OK? We’ll just call this an “Open Thread,” then, shall we?
And I’ve just been informed that the temperature in Iraq is about the same as in Phoenix, so maybe my point about the heat making them all crazy over there is wrong… or maybe everyone in Phoenix is crazy, too… except my brother-in-law there is a great guy. Really a prince of a dude.
Anyhoo, commence with the open thread, and Jeff, whatever you’re up to, be cool and hurry back!
TW: tried
Forget it he’s rolling…
Oh, and this is utter and complete bullshit.
/I failed to make this point in my last post
It was truly bizarre watching this unfold right in front of us. I have a 3 year old daughter, so I can sure relate to your concern. Take care of this problem now. I don’t think that she will just go away.
Ok it’s official… the “Psycho Meter” just went to DefCon 1.
Jeff,
I just wanted to say good luck, we’re all counting on you.
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Good luck to you Jeff. Stay safe. It may be time to spend a little of that home buying fund on your current home defense needs, or failing that perhaps a home defense fund request from your readers.
I smell varmint poontang, and the only good varmint poontang is incarcerated varmint poontang, I think….
Jeff, you and yours be safe. Do what you need to do, but remember you’ve got a lot more friends than enemies. If you feel a need for a defensive armaments fund, just give the word and I’m in.
TW=boy. As in, I say old boy, has the wacko been around tonight? Pity, that. Would you like to borrow my elephant gun?
Good luck, Jeff. Pulling for you.
Jeff, whatever help I can provide that you can use, just ask.
…in case snark-bombing is in the plan, you never know.
Seriously, though.
Just turn off comments. I know, comments are only have the fun of protein wisdom, but half a loaf is better than no loaf. unless you’re loafing, which i suspect is the real reason you’re taking time off.
You know, it’s been a while since I saw Animal House. Can we call the quote fake but accurate? Also, wouldn’t y’all say that our response to Pearl Harbor (the event, not the shitty movie) was a wee bit…er…disproportionate?
Jeff,
You have my prayers, guy. Please don’t be gone too long. TW: Stand tall, be safe, know you are loved.
HCT
No I’d say our reactions to both were just fine.
TW: incarcerate without benefit of charge or trial
Tip jar smacked. Go get ‘em, tiger.
TW: The man has a plan. Unlike Deb.
Did we give up in the fourth quarter when we were down by three touchdowns? Did we give up on the rope in gym class when our little fingers burned? Did we give up when Glen Greenwald only had three sock puppets? Did we give up when the homoerotic Vikings from Pornostan landed at Normandy?
No, No, NO, NO, a thousand times NO!!! I say onto thee, Nein, Non, La, Nyet, yok, bu shou, ching ching nami nami, and no way, Jose.
And now look at us? We watched Al Bundy stick his hands down his pants in the In-zone, and we cried. We climbed that rope and left our priest indolent of his tumescence on the gym floor.
Glen Greenwald has a new fashion line of sock puppets coming out, and even hired Deb Frisch–or La Grande Eph, as they’re billing her–to model it. We owe ourselves a great round of applause and pats on the back and genital holding for the new “Floppy Tube” campaign, even more so for our courage in supporting the war behind our modems and internets and internets modems.
And we wouldn’t have our gay Nordic overlords if we…oh, geez, well, can’t win them all. I guess the terrorists already won.
Jeff, take care, brother. Ever in Michigan, email me. But leave the Armadillo home. I’ll never forgive him for doing what he did to my fiancee. (23 HOURS? Motherfuck, I’m 23 seconds and that’s with foreplay and taking the clothes off…)
Stay safe, Jeff, and do what you feel you must, but remember…if you’re silenced they win.
Jeff, good luck. There’s a rubber room with Deb Frisch’s name on it. Put her in it and hurry back.
All yours Jeff… bury her well… (legally of course)
TW: Only a matter of time before moonbat’s are history
Jeff … remember my offer re: cyber-tech … Geoff is ready and rarin’ to go when you say the word.
Be well.
Jeff, I’m sure you’re talking to a lawyer about this, but if you’re thinking about pursuing a civil case against Ms. Frisch, discuss any laws relevant to disruption of commerce.
I have no legal knowledge at all, but I’m guessing that there must be laws against malicious disruption of business. I mean, I would guess it’s illegal to to play a tuba in a bookstore without the express consent of the proprietors. Deb’s maliciously interfering with PW’s revenue stream if you have to shut off comments.
Any lawyers out there? Is this an angle that might work?
What strikes me about Frisch’s behavior is not merely the outbursts, but also that she exhibits distinct paranoiac features during her less agitated periods.
She then experiences intermittent cycles of intense, aggressive hostility, as we’ve all seen. However, what distinguishes these outbursts from ordinary forms of confrontation is that they are designed not only to alienate the target of her hostility (i.e., Jeff Goldstein), but more importantly, to alientate everyone else who might agree with her politically.
In other words, she is lashing out at him in a distinct way —one that is (a) sexual in nature, and (b) guaranteed to increase her social isolation, not only among those she views as political enemies, but especially among her self-selected affinity group.
She has repeatedly stated that she was trying to be banned. She has done this with others. What does this signify?
It is highly likely that she has an organic, underlying condition that is contributing to a fundamental paranoia. She then seeks out confrontations where she is not only guaranteed to get into a disagreement, but does so for the added purpose of being ostracized, by as large a group as possible.
The antagonism and hostility that she engenders among people like Jeff (and his friends and sympathizers) serves a very important purpose—it gives form and structure to her feelings of persecution. In other words, she first feels the paranoia and persecution (which is organic and exists independently of her circumstances), then goes out looking for someone to give her a reason believe she is being persecuted.
In essence, she is looking for someone to justify, valdate and legitimize her pre-existing feelings of being embattled and isolated. She is working very hard to be as (a) persecuted, and (b) isolated as she feels.
Paranoia and social isolation are the key elements of Paranoid Personality Disorder.
Also, consider the features of Histrionic Personality Disorder:
1. rapidly shifting emotional states;
2. contrived manner of speech that is excessively impressionistic;
3. inappropriately sexual or provocative behavior;
4. theatricality (exaggerated expression of emotion);
5. believes relationships to be more intimate than they are;
6. craves being the center of attention.
To those PWers who are lamenting the fact that JG has to stop blogging temporarily –
It is far more important that this disturbed leftwing nutjob be spanked legally – the reason she keeps pushing JG and the envelope in general is because she has not felt any real legal consequences for her cyberthreats against JG’s son.
And now she will. Take note, Frischian wannabes.
tw: It will be normal one day again, friends. Someday.
So….. No ‘dillo then, huh?
Figures.
Seriously, please take care of this. There’s a very, very sick woman out there who needs some sort of medical attention before she hurts someone or herself. She might be harmless, but why take chances?
And as much as I love this blog, I’d prefer to see you and your family safe before I see the ‘dillo dance. Take care.
I’m starting to suspect that she’s a closeted heterosexual, myself.
Mexicali hookers! The ultimate in open source!
I think the last consonant there needs to be just a tad softer…
Oh, for a second I thought DGH said “open sores”…
Well,
I’m hoping this will be a very short break.
I enjoy the comments as much as the posts.
But family safety comes first.
And the person that is commenting as Pixie is not
me. Not even a sock puppet of me. Likewise, I am not Pixie.
I know none of you care, but in this day of sock puppets, you can’t be too careful.
Pixie Pug
P.S.
I loathe the fishfry.
TW: series
I didn’t mean to write a series
McGehee, you’re a madman. Again.
Well damn, Jeff. Guess I was way off with the “harmless douchebag” comment. Come back safe, you’ll be missed.
@#$!!
I can’t/won’t/don’t use PayPal (logistical reason: I can’t seem to access the account they claim I have with them) and the Amazon tipjar link won’t load. Will keep trying.
Okay, I was able to get into the tipjar page this time. Hope it took.
I look forward to the return of your dancing, though I certainly don’t consider it idiotic. Do what you have to man, and get back!
Jeff-
Watch out for you and yours, we’ll all be here when you decide to come back. As for the nutjob…bury her.
You need anything, you give a shout out. We all take care of our own.
Well.
Crap.
This is my place for the free funny and the long-haired (and occasionaly, long winded) analysis. With the free funny.
Did I mention the free funny?
Now on hiatus? I’m rather annoyed with Ms. Frisch.
Any chance we’ll see our resident leftist agitators pipe up with some timely denunciations of their fellow traveler’s behavior? Yeah, didn’t think so.
I’ll be back when you are, Jeff. Godspeed.
If there were any true cosmic justice out there, Frisch should have spontaneously combusted by now.
Stay safe, Jeff.
We all look forward to a PW Conceptual Series sometime in the not too distant future limning out your experience of dealing with this insanity