Frisch defends hereself:

Frisch acknowledged that the tone of her comments — even if they had nothing to do with her teaching — make her a target. “I play a dangerous game by being a professor and also having a very rabid left-wing blog and also posting nasty inflammatory comments on other people’s blogs,” she said. “The issue is how these rabid, crazy, right-wing nutcases have stalked me, told on me, reacted totally out of proportion to a joke in bad taste I posted on a blog. They are treating me the way they treated Ward Churchill — a lunatic lefty in academia who deserves to be verbally attacked, abused and mocked.”

Me: And this woman is a professor? She admits to having a “very rabid left-wing blog.” If she thinks it’s very rabidly leftwing, what are sane people supposed to think of it? Similarly, I love the idea that “the issue” is how people she thinks are rightwing nutcases have reacted to her deliberately nasty provocations. I don’t condone “stalking” or harassment. But isn’t this a bit like yelling fire in a theater and then saying “the issue” is that some of the “nutcases” in the theater stepped on her foot while running for the door?

Update: From a reader:

Jonah:
Check out her July 10 entry (today) entitled “Brouhaha.” How about this for an apology: “In hindsight, I should have made comments about Jeff’s wife’s private parts.”
What kind of whackjob is this? I cannot imagine any motive behind such words that is not simply malignant and attention-seeking. I know nothing about Goldstein, so she has apparently failed at making me dislike him as well. But I know that only a thug that has totally lost touch with humanity would, after being chastised for threatening a toddler, “recant” by saying the proper course of conduct would have been to attack his wife instead of his child. What a shame.