That's the only way to describe this post by Joe Romm. I'm serious. The man has tied himself in knots over a wild, unsubstantiated claim he made a few weeks ago:
Now that they have shut down his original blog, Roger Pielke, Jr., is desperately trying to remain relevant in the blogosphere.
Any reasonable person would take "they" to mean the University of Colorado, Boulder, where Pielke Jr. is employed and where Prometheus was housed. And if you read the comment thread from that particular post, you'll see that Romm goes further out on a limb to defend his assertion. Additionally, the exchanges he has with some skeptical readers are cringe-inducing. I can't tell if he's being paranoid or hyper-sensitive. At any rate, in today's post, Romm tries to clear up the confusion over this matter:
True, I carelessly didn't explain who I meant by "they" "” although I clearly ...
