Conservative Blogger Attacked by Moonbats

Michelle Malkin has another interesting moonbats vs. wingnuts post today (wingnuts rule, by the way). Jeff Goldstein, who runs a popular conservative blog called Protein Wisdom, really got under the skin of some of the nasties on the Left, including one Deb Frisch, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Arizona (that's in Tucson). Frisch began posting messages to the blog that were quite hostile, and finally crossed the line: she began making comments that could be construed as death threats against Goldstein's two year old son. See Malkin's post for details.

Jeff Goldstein complained to the University of Arizona about the messages and shortly thereafter, Frisch resigned her teaching position there, presumably to avoid being fired. She also began receiving email and posts to her own blog. (I left her a message sincerely advising her to seek professional help.)

The Nutball Left is ruthless, as we all know, because they can't win with reasoning and debate. So Protein Wisdom is down this morning due to two DOS attacks launched by Frisch's pals.

DOS stands for "denial of service." It is a high tech attack on a computer server designed to consume its bandwidth, disk space or CPU time, or by corrupting its routing information, slowing the operation of the attacked server to such a degree that it can no longer function.

DDOS, or distributed denial of service attacks, are those that use zombie computers, other computers compromised by viruses or trojan horses that may be activated (through a software robot called a botnet) to send a massive number of requests for services to the attacked server, overwhelming its ability to respond.

Michelle Malkin and other conservatives have recently been the target of such attacks, proving that the Left can't refute us, so they try to censor us.

However, a DOS attack is a computer crime and is illegal. A good computer sleuth can often trace these attacks and identify the perpetrator, thus making him eligible for an all expenses paid vacation in the Gray Bar Hotel.