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This afternoon, I tweeted a brief joke about a well-known NYT op-Ed columnist. It got 9 likes and 0 retweets. I did not @ him. He does not follow me. He just emailed me, cc’ing my university provost. He is deeply offended that I called him a metaphorical bedbug.

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dave karpf (parody account)

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Alright fine... here is the email:

2:13 AM · Aug 27, 2019

dave karpf (parody account)

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Hey, at least he called me Dr. Karpf...

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dude go to his house and call him a bedbug

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area 51 but for going to bret stephens house and calling him a bedbug

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"Someone just pointed out" certainly sounds better than "I was searching my own name, and..."

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wait 'til the bedbugs find out you compared them to Bret Stephens.

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But you're right. According to Wikipedia he really is a bedbug

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Isn't this the plot of that Kafka story?

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Like you show up to meet his family and no one knows where he is because he's actually transformed into a bedbug? Maybe I'm remembering some of the details wrong.

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i can't get over cc'ing the provost. what was that supposed to accomplish?

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