Speaking of which, I heard your charges were dismissed, but am awaiting your reply to my e-mail asking for your info. Maybe you didn’t get it. Please call or write for a chat! Thanks.

Is that in some way a victory of the Boycott efforts, however trivial you try to portray them? It is just one layer I suppose in your continual history of disseminating you own personal “self-serving misapprehensions and Internet-flavored bile” which you accuse me of when I am just attempting to defend my name.

Your farticle (aka an article full of crap under the guise of news) is far shy of the appropriate corrections, just like you are a few hotels short of a Monopoly set.

A comeback jabbing back at me for my LinkedIn profile is a pathetic attempt at justifying your malevolent intentional lies. I’ve got better things to do than rant here all day long, but I will have to tailor an op-ed if you would have the nerve to print it. I noticed each time your paper comes my way it is full of people ragging on you for your far below sub-par abuse of the press. It wouldn’t necessarily break from op-eds about youth do-gooders.

BTW, here’s a fresh example of that strikethrough technique:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/05/17/dream-of-endeavour/

According to the HCSO, JR spoke with slurred speech, had trouble standing and was deemed incapable of caring for his own safety, especially in the dangerous area alongside the freeway. That’s just what they tell me; I wasn’t there, and Jason hasn’t been convicted of anything.

Jason has made a name for himself with his hyper-activism near and far, and made startling claims about various issues and people. When a guy so stridently positioning himself with the angels of truth and casting himself as a perpetual victim of so many sinister oppressors gets arrested on a concealed weapon charge, it’s the stuff of news.

Years back, one of the first things I experienced in writing stories about political zealots, particularly conspiracy theorists, is that as much as bankers and politicians, they do not like their negative news covered. So they try and disqualify the journalist by bringing that reporter into it personally and making it about them. It threw me for a loop the first or second time. Then, like all reporters, I became kind if inured to it and other unpleasant aspects of the job. It’s not just me; the True Believers project treachery on good reporters, like Hank Sims for example, all the time. I just read yesterday that he isn’t a journalist in any way, shape or form. He denies the aspersions on his shape and form.

The always-humorless zealots’ accompanying tactic is to weigh you down by making you answer at length to their weird theories about you, which they can make up at a rate faster than you could ever effectively process. Now Jason wants to debate me; if I don’t take him up on it, well then clearly I’m afraid of being exposed by Captain Truth.

Your perceptions of my character are real for you, but they seem based on flimsy fragments pieced together from the monster-making Internet. (Frankly it does seem to me that there is some of the usual blog-driven Internet poisoning going on here.) As for any audio of me Jason is using, I’m sure it’s as fair and balanced as the rest of his oeuvre.

Your pattern, David, is to denounce me for rather contrived ethical lapses (one withering jeremiad of which I published, you’ll recall) while calling me meanie-pants names on various online fora. Now the charges have morphed and receded into character deficits. Now I am smug and jerkish, plus there are these armies of Kevin-dislkers whose actions I must explain to you.

If it’s any comfort, the people who gush about my great work seem just as ill-advised. I don’t agree with them most of the time either, or at least I can’t take their praise to heart. But at least they’re friendly. One time someone brought me an apple pie. Maybe the Kev-likers could counsel their Hoover-hating counterparts, because I have so much work to do. If you could all sort this out amongst yourselves, I’d be mighty appreciative.

Should you ever feel like dropping the crap and talking to me, I’ll do the same – give me a call at (707) 826-7000. I bet you will find that we have more in common than you know. But you would really have to be willing to loosen your grip on a lot of bizarre assumptions about me, and I don’t see any trends indicating that you are ready to do so.

David, I am just trying to put out a small, quirky community newspaper every week while keeping body and soul together. I am simply not ambitious or diabolical enough to fulfill your bogeyman projections.

Glad you ran a regular correction box in the newspaper. I have seen news websites update factually incorrect stories and then put an editor’s note atop the story indicating that the old incorrect version has been updated. I see very few newspapers running corrections with strike through lines. I have seen some blogs do it, so maybe that’s where it started.

I disagree with you that we are discussing simple typos here. The factual errors in the story that I am referring to as slanderous are not the location of the incident but rather the allegation that Jason answered the door drunk and slurred something about his knife. That paints him in a very poor light and the problem with the statement is that it never happened! See what I’m getting at?

Yes, in a forum I did say mean things about you and call you names. I later deleted the posts because I felt they were disrespectful and inappropriate. I let my anger get the best of me for a moment and I exercised bad judgment. I do not like you as a person, but I should respect you just as I would respect all people. So, since you still have it in your memory bank, I apologize for my mean comments about you, they were inappropriate.

Kevin, I do not know you well, but I feel like you are a mean spirited person. On Jason’s website there is a recording of your phone conversation with him; you sound so arrogant, flippant and jerkish. What’s the deal? Is it just your personality or do you really hate Jason and the homeless and growers and etc.? A lot of people dislike you and I do not think it is solely because you are an investigative journalist uncovering everyone’s dirty laundry and just doing your job of exposing evil and corruption. So, what gives, why the smug attitude?