Ah, Karma

Wife Beater

Not long ago I posted a letter (see June archives: A Phony Writer...) that I wrote to Chicago Sun-Times/New York Daily News columnist Neil Steinberg concerning his myopic public trashing of the artist Kerry Skarbakka which lead to Kerry recieving death threats from cro-mags upon his return to New York City after completing the photographic part of his art (he was "falling" from the roof of the MCA in Chicago and his team of photographers shot pictures that he would later manipulate digitally. Steinberg accused him of "reenacting" 9-11 as a publicity stunt which was a million miles away from Kerry's intention).

Steinberg climbed up on his moral high horse and gave Kerry a serious thrashing in print, saying he was no artist and that his "stunt" was disgusting. He finished his column saying that he'd like to whip Kerry with a cat-o-nine-tails on a street corner in New York City.

Well Neil's proclivity for physical assault reared its nasty little head this last week as he was arrested in Chicago for domestic battery (apparently he could not wait to get it on with Kerry so he took it out on his wife instead after a night of serious boozing). Anyway, his moral high horse turned out to be a Trojan horse full of nasty little demons that exploded from their hiding place and have forced him from his vaunted self-righteous perch. Apparently Neil has had a field day as a columnist dragging the carcasses of other's through the bloody fields of public embarrassment and so now the tide has gloriously turned as it always does. Have fun in rehab Neil.