...I think it's (sadly) already become passe.

Ann Althouse and Meade have been covering the demonstrations in their backyard in Madison.

Today, some Madison jackass using the name Jim Shankman published a threat/blackmail letter on Scrib'ed (probably a violation of the TOS) in which Anne and Meade are instructed to apologize, pay $10,000 to the IWW and other 'progressive' organizations (plus free pizza for the protesters!), maintain silence about political issues relating to unions, and stay away from a statue in downtown Madison.

Read the whole piece while it's up (it's a massive TOS violation and won't be there long).

I've had a couple people rattle my cage - nothing very serious because I'm not at Althouse's level of prominence (or maybe because I'm the "Armed" Liberal?).

But this kind of bullying bullshit is far beyond the pale, and while it's the work of one person - named Jim Shankman - clearly it opens the gates for him, or for someone who reads his drivel (and it's really bad - a farrago of sexual, political, and economic frustration written by someone who isn't smart enough to understand that overpaid public-sector workers are making his life as a marginal service worker worse) to tee off on Anne or Meade.

That's bad.

It's likely nothing at all except shameful to the guy who wrote and posted it, and to the whopping 82 people who have "liked" it.

This kind of personalized threat is the opposite of what our politics needs right now.
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