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Pulitzer Prize winning authors can wank too.
Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Olen Butler's wife (a fellow author) left him for billionaire Ted Turner. Butler decided to send an email to his graduate students about the whole thing mentioning pertinent facts such as she was molested by her grandfather, that she is just one of Ted Turner's girlfriends, and that she had an intestinal blockage. His whole tone in the email is that everything is so amicable and that he thinks she's a wonderful person-it really is the height of passive-aggressiveness.

It might not surprise you to learn one of his friends or students sent the email to gawker. Now Butler has sent a pissed off email to gawker, spoke to Page Six, and did an interview with NPR about it. So far, it's really only a fight between gawker and Butler, but I wish Ted Turner would say something about it.

ETA: Another email to gawker explaining himself. I think the guy just needs to stop now.

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	chaimonkey 2007-08-02 01:56 am UTC (link)
	From Wikipedia: [Ted Turner] also created the environmental education/action animated series Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Affair? What affair? Ted Turner can do no wrong! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	Protect the environment- OR I'LL IN' KILL YOU! shaysdays 2007-08-02 02:01 am UTC (link)
	Not just created... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVrqARUGtWk He lives the dream, dude. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Protect the environment- OR I'LL IN' KILL YOU! radiotrash 2007-08-02 05:32 am UTC (link)
	That was beautiful. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Protect the environment- OR I'LL IN' KILL YOU! frequentmouse 2007-08-02 05:14 pm UTC (link)
	Ted Turner is beyond a doubt one of the most annoying environmental good guys out there; he gave a huge stretch of coastal barrier Islands to the Nature Conservancy, when other large land-owneres were turning them into resort communities with nasty, nasty shoreline impacts. But he used to race cigarette boats, and then there's the damned Atlanta Braves. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Re: Protect the environment- OR I'LL IN' KILL YOU! chaimonkey 2007-08-06 01:20 am UTC (link)
	Y'know, I finally understand that sketch. Thank you, shaysdays and Wikipedia! :DDD (Reply to this)(Parent)

	vzg 2007-08-03 02:29 am UTC (link)
	"Earth! Wind! Water! Fire! ~~Adultery!~~ I mean, HEART!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	taktuk 2007-08-03 07:43 am UTC (link)
	One wonders how many bestiality lovers out there first considered the fetish because of "Heart!" Oh, gods. In D&D there's a similar item called a "Ring of Animal Friendship." It lets you charm animals at will. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	chaimonkey 2007-08-06 01:22 am UTC (link)
	The monkey knows the TRUTH! (Reply to this)(Parent)

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