We noted last week the "right-wing crazy storm" that enveloped Professor Torcello after misrepresentation by various far right blogs of an essay he had written; this post documents the harassment in some gory detail.  Back when I wrote more about politics, I would periodically get linked from right-wing crazy blogs, like InstaIgnorance, and would then receive a similar barrage of e-mail abuse ("eat shit and die you commie fag" was the entire content of one such message).  This is consistent, of course, with what the research shows about the generous number of sociopaths and other sick people in the bowels of cyberspace.