Back when I was trying to be an author, my fake publicists opened a Twitter account for me. The publishing industry is full of stories about authors selling a million copies of their books by using social media. I’d looked at Twitter before July of 2013—that’s when I hired the fake publicists—and decided it wasn’t…
My calculated risk
February 27, 2015
Every now and then I’m reminded that what I do is dangerous. However, for me it’s a calculated risk, as I’ll explain in a moment. Today the American writer and blogger Avijit Roy was murdered in Bangladesh. He was killed by Islamists with machetes as he left a book fair. His wife Rafida Ahmed Bonya…
Jew-hating lunatic publishes book under my name
February 2, 2015
A Jew-hating lunatic named Arthur D. Royster, real name Peter Stahl, has published a Kindle book under my name. It’s titled The Bunche Report. Stahl is so addled and stupid that he actually sent me the incontrovertible evidence that he’s the author of this defamatory and completely litigation-worthy opus. Don’t worry: The address and phone…
A convincing argument that they don’t hate Jews
December 25, 2014
On July 13, 2014, I wrote a post titled “Everyday Berserkery,” about the sheer number of mental patients inhabiting the militaria-collecting community. It was one of the reasons I got out of it. To illustrate how demented, complicated, and feud-oriented it is, I mentioned some bizarre flap involving two guys named Prosper Keating and Arthur…