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A transplanted Midwesterner puts down roots in Alabama and helps show how "loyal Bushies" have corrupted our justice system.
A right-leaning Alabama blogger mysteriously has shut down his blog after spending several days attacking me and my story of Republican corruption at Legal Schnauzer.
The latest chapter in the Legal Schnauzer story involves my termination at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) after 19 years of service, an event that appears to have been driven by Republican forces in Alabama. Did that attract a GOP attack dog? Looks like it.
Dan Roberts, who ran the Huntsville-based Daily Dixie blog, first trashed me last Friday with a post titled "Legal Schnauzer's Micro-War." The piece consisted mainly of Roberts calling me paranoid and delusional and generally questioning my mental health:
The Daily Dixie Brouhaha
The more Roberts tried to explain himself, the stranger things got. For example, roughly three weeks earlier Roberts wrote that he found Legal Schnauzer "informative and entertaining" and that UAB's actions in my firing were "setting off flags" with him.
By this past weekend, Roberts said he had barely paid attention to my blog and that, in his opinion, I was more or less mentally ill. Why the change? I offered a theory or two:
What's Driving Daily Dixie?
Roberts seemed to have trouble grasping the basic issues raised in Legal Schanzuer. He particularly seemed to struggle with the notion that Republican state judges in Alabama could be corrupt--that they, in fact, could commit federal crimes, as they have repeatedly in my case.
Given that Karl Rove's electoral handiwork in the 1990s ensured that Alabama state courts would be dominated by the GOP for the foreseeable future, perhaps it's understandable that Roberts would struggle with that notion. So I tried to spell out for him that the corruption I've witnessed is as simple as baseball's "three strikes and your out" rule.
Daily Dixie Explains Himself--Sort Of
I never got the chance to see if Roberts understood my explanation because when I checked into the blogosphere this morning, his site was gone:
What Happened to Daily Dixie?
What led to Daily Dixie's demise? I don't know. But here's one theory: Maybe GOP attack dogs don't like it when someone bites back.