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The man has become paranoid and clinically insane.
He no longer allows any dissent on his blog, and he'll often ban commenters (even long time, valued ones) for disagreeing with him or questioning his beliefs. I was banned for raising questions about one of his thousand anti-"intelligent design" posts.
His site has become an echo chamber of sycophants. Much worse than Daily Kos. It's very sad, but it's his site to fuck up as he wishes.
He says he stopped using SiteMeter because the site was unsafe, but really it's because his visits have plummeted. According to Alexa, his site is now only #27,421 in traffic.
He's a liberal with a drug-addled brain.
Yea he went off the deep end of crazy late last year. He will tolerate no dissent or contrary opinion. Echo chamber is exactly the right term.
I was there for years and got banned because I posted that I thought the site was becoming a little inconsistent and harsh in criticism of global warming critics, and I posted it in the kindest of terms knowing just how paranoid and strident Johnson had gotten. It took him all of 15 seconds to delete my post, seriously.
Johnson had his moment with the throbbing memo but after that became increasingly self-important (even referring to himself in the third person at times), unbalanced, and vicious. He started picking fights for no reason with other bloggers that had supported him and made paranoia his trademark.
In a way he became exactly what he used to despised, he became his version of Dan Rather.
It is painful to go back and look at what has become of what was a good community.