Over the past week, I’ve received some vituperative e-mails from pro-Harriet-Miers people. One of them, with the initials ct, accused me of being hostile to evangelicals — a charge I find especially outrageous because I have spent more time arguing with more passion on behalf of evangelicals and their positive role in American politics with friends who grow almost demented about the matter than on almost any other subject I can think of.

Anyway, after a while, our exchange turned hostile and I told him to jump in the lake (though I did so a little more vituperatively than that). He e-mailed me this morning to say he had posted my e-mails on his blog. I e-mailed him back to say that was a violation of my copyright, he did not have permission to do so. He e-mailed back twice.

First he said, jovially, that maybe I was right about that but that I should admit he might be right about Miers. I told him again to take down my e-mail. At which point I received this missive:

“Dude, it WAS down, but…guess what? It’s going

back

up. And listen, jew s**t: threaten me again and

I’ll

track your fat a** down. Nobody threatens me over

the

internet and doesn’t pay. You filthy f—ing

witch.

Go tell the devil I’m on your a** now, b—h.”

I responded that by threatening me physically, he might now have committed a felony (if done so over phone lines), and that I would inform both Yahoo, his internet service provider, and Blogger, the home of his blog, of his words. His reply:

“Listen Jew s***: can it. You f—-d up. It was down,

now it’s back up. You don’t like it? Learn your

manners, filth. Learn your manners. And yes, I will

god d— love – LOVE – L O V E !!! to get into your

world if you should get into mine. I would god d—

love it, boy. Bring it on. I became a Christian from

a world that makes you s*** your pants, and I can go

back to it easily.”

Yes, a lesson in manners from an anti-Semitic psychotic. Just a little glance into JPod’s e-mail.