Thread:Una74/@comment-71.58.210.121-20171010133156/@comment-24.211.150.11-20171026032649

I never said Paterno might be innocent. If you think I did, please provide a citation. I resigned the Paterno chair precisely because I could not agree with the people who consider him innocent. (But Joe Paterno never lied about me on the internet, so that is why I would be more concerned in this context with people who lie about me on the internet.)

As for Rebecca Schuman, would you please say precisely where and how I crossed a line? What exactly did I say about her? (And please remember that when I engage with people on the internet, I have no way of knowing whether they're pregnant.) Just for the record: Rebecca wrote to me that summer to explain that she was having very violent mid-pregnancy mood swings that accounted for a good deal of her controversial online behavior, and I wrote back to say yikes, that's horrible, I hope you and your baby wind up healthy and happy. We met in real life that fall, had a cordial conversation, and have not been in touch since. -- Michael Berube