I was lucky enough to interview him for my school's newspaper when I was in high school. I got a couple of hours of face-to-face, plus some phone time, to talk to him about his books, his life, and pretty much everything he was doing. I really enjoyed his work, and I'm very sad to hear he's gone.

So, this is generally a bad thing. So, what do we do about this?

One of the things that I usually hate about "discussion sites" is that eventually, it's an echo chamber. And this is no exception.

The only question is, at what point do we decide to make this stop? And what do we do to stop this? And at what point do we decide that it's not worth it to stop this, and move elsewhere where the concepts of "privacy", "freedom" and "torture" are not trivial things to be redefined at the whims of the Assistant Assistant Undersecretary of Naval Gazing?