As would I if I had known. I'm sorry we had this nonsense drug in over me making a minor point. I sometimes purposely say or talk about things that I know will offend people's sensitivities if I consider it necessary to make an important point. That can't be helped. But I don't go around hurting people's feelings just for fun. It would take something more significant than Janet Jackson for me to purposely stick something this hateful in your face.

I apologize for invoking Yeagley in the first place. I should have vetted just a little more closely. I would not purposely have pushed his racial foolishness into public consciousness just to make a minor point.

This gorilla picture was hateful and unnecessary. Yeagley's obviously bigoted against black folks. However badly you wish to take the symbolism though, it was ultimately a pretty minor point. Stan and Kyle hand out worse slams than that on the playground at South Park- much less Cartman.

My response at the time publicly and privately was basically what Stan or Kyle would say over remarks that they judged to be out of bounds: Dude, that's not cool.

This was not nearly enough to satisfy some Blogcritics however, who formed an evil, out-of-their-heads Dionysian blog mob to denounce and curse Dr Yeagley. What a perfect opportunity to let off some blood lust and PROVE that you're not a racist!

Soon, the Blogcritics were competing with each other to come up with the most malicious denunciation. There were grandiose fantasies of suffering and death for the evil Injun who put up a picture of a gorilla on his website. My other big hate crime was that somewhere in here I specifically invited Yeagley to come defend himself against these ridiculously vicious attacks, which he did in a perfectly civil manner, before being arbitrarily banned to satisfy the mob.

I did not invite Yeagley over just to screw with people. I could have done without some his nonsense myself, as I was starting to figure out. Nonetheless, our resident racial antagonist Mac Diva was hard at work libeling Yeagley with all her might. I generally think that even a jackass has a right to defend himself. It only seemed fair.

I will admit that it was a mistake to have drug Yeagley's baggage onto our site. I will also simultaneously ask my fellow Blogcritics to admit that Mac Diva, whom we all tolerated for most of two years as one of us, was a far worse racist and hatemonger than the Bad Eagle.