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Gribbit Gets Even Weirder

Category: ACLU
Posted on: June 16, 2006 10:05 AM, by Ed Brayton

It is perhaps pointless to give this guy so much attention, but this just keeps getting weirder and weirder. In addition to his various threats that he'll "get" people, Gribbit has now posted all of the web hosting information for the blog Thinking Meat. Why? I have no idea. Perhaps he's hoping one of his (few) readers is going to call up the hosting service and say....well, what? "This guy has been saying mean things about someone else, make him stop"? For a guy who claims to be so courageous, he sure is thin-skinned and whiny. If you dare to tell him he's wrong - and even worse, if you document it and prove him wrong - he claims to be "under attack" and responds with insults and threats, while simultaneously criticizing his tormenters for lack of courage. Clearly, someone with far more testosterone than IQ.

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For a guy who claims to be so courageous, he sure is thin-skinned and whiny. If you dare to tell him he's wrong - and even worse, if you document it and prove him wrong - he claims to be "under attack" and responds with insults and threats, while simultaneously criticizing his tormenters for lack of courage. Clearly, someone with far more testosterone than IQ.

Doesn't that describe much of the right wing so-called pundits?

Posted by: Roger Tang | June 16, 2006 10:35 AM

It's almost like he thinks that finding the whois info for someone's website is some sort of super sleuth technique.

I can almost see him in his basement sweating all the negative attention he's getting and plotting his next dastardly move.

What next? Is he going to tell us that PZ has some weird fascination with cephalopods?

Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | June 16, 2006 10:39 AM

"Doesn't that describe much of the right wing so-called pundits?" : Ann Coulter

Posted by: Rich | June 16, 2006 10:42 AM

The last line in your post reminded me of a wonderful book of essays by Robert Sapolsky, The Trouble With Testosterone. I would advise everybody here to stop reading Gribbit's insane posts and start reading Sapolsky's book. It's fun, educational, and you won't feel like blinding yourself with a salad fork to escape the lunacy after reading it.

Posted by: Cody Cobb | June 16, 2006 11:25 AM

I'm sure he's just happy for the spike in traffic he's gotten.

These guys (including Mr. Coulter) are all just attention hogs.

Posted by: theberle | June 16, 2006 12:44 PM

I registered partly to tell you I enjoy your posts about this guy, they're funny as hell. I love the picture on the side that says "This site PRAYS for our troops". That's obviously all people like this guy do since doing something to actually support the troops (or God forbid enlisting) would be too hard.

Posted by: Ciaphas | June 16, 2006 1:35 PM

Funny too is the fact that he berates his readers as being cowardly, but has his domain registration through a proxy.

Posted by: Matt | June 16, 2006 1:51 PM