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"If one is stupid enough to let one's identity become known, then one shouldn't complain.
If you're gonna pull a prank, be smart enough not to leave a trail."

So I guess you are saying that if you call someone some names you should expect to be beaten up by his supporters. I'm more concerned about the people who would actually commit violence against someone for something like this. That we don't need.

So I guess you are saying that if you call someone some names you should expect to be beaten up by his supporters.

Violence for actions directed at someone else may not be defensible but a person had better be prepared to defend himself for insulting words he speaks.

I had a friend who was out with his fiancee, his band members, and another band (on the same bill at a festival).

One of the other band's members was hitting on the fiancee. He said, "Why don't you come back to my hotel room?"

My friend told him, "that's my fiancee". The other guy then told him, "well then you can watch."

A fight was averted but you can understand that such words would provoke such an action and figure into any assault charge.

Some communities even permit the man to KILL the other man if he's found in bed with his wife (crime of passion).

Don't talk the talk if you can't walk the walk and realize that the internet may put a barrier between people who are communicating but there are very real people on the other "end" of the conversation.

I've never heard Stern's radio show, but I did read his book. Stern was fired once, after he'd earned quite a name for himself.

It was not an insignifigant bump in the road of Mr. Stern's career path, to be sure. But Stern is a fairly strong-minded man. After he was picked up by a competing local station, he went on to compete against his former bosses with the zeal that only a truly spurned man will know. In due course, his former station withered on the vine, leaving Stern to cackle with glee.

There are those here who dislike Savage, yes, but who here thinks of Savage as weak-minded? Who here thinks that that Savage is not vindictive? Certainly it would not please him to hear me say so, but for all of his poignant humor, I would place vindictiveness at the tippy-top of Michael's qualities, and I shudder to think of what he would like to do to KSFO ratings in his slot...

In fairness, let me say that I would do EXACTLY the same thing.

Let's think back, years back, to when Michael started, in order to divine the future: As Michael's radio career slowly first started to take off, it became less and less a means to carve out a living, serving more and more as a bludgeoning tool with which to beat his former academic foes: "I wanted to count myself among your number, and you hurt me".

Recall that they, too, pushed him off of the Ivory Tower. They, too, thought Michael would go ker-splat.

Instead, Michael thrived on the outside, and as his ratings swelled, he wasn't "big" about his win. He greedily salted up the dagger, and set about his gristly revenge with a clinical precision.

And so it shall be this time.