Steve Kenny over at the Advocate has been keeping up with the comments from readers on Rod Dreher’s announcement that he’s leaving the Morning News. Kenny points out this bit of info, from Dreher himself:
I should also tell you — as I have told some of you privately — that my family had to get police protection this summer from an irate reader of my column and this blog, a person who made particular threats based on his disapproval of my commentary. I have never backed down from writing exactly what I wanted to write and felt called to write, no matter what the threat — but I can tell you that my wife is not sorry for me to be leaving that garbage behind. My family has had to put up with enough crap from me having a newspaper job — including having to miss soccer games and suchlike because of changing deadlines — that I felt that I owed them better.
