Blog Post

Since I began writing about Skinny Nutritional Corp. (OTCBB: SKNY, featured here) I have received a torrent of comments which, among other things, accuse me of “scaring a lot of people out of making a lot of money,” “being pathetic,” “eating paint chips,” “being a f**king moron,” “trashing the stock cause [sic] I have nothing better to do,” “being illiterate,” “hating the shareholders,” “having no balls,” “being a professional,” and “being an ameture.” One poster even called this blog “insidious drivel” and another asked me “how I sleep at night.” Perhaps these are the same people who created this profile suggesting I am a Muslim (I guess that’s an insult to some people) or this site implying I am fat and bald.

I just don’t get it. So if you’re one of the people who has recently slandered me, please answer this simple question: Why do you hate me?

Is it because you think I’m intentionally trying to manipulate SKNY with my blog posts? I couldn’t do that even if I desired; my site has very little traffic at this point. In fact, Tim Sykes covered this stock around the same time as me, and his posts get orders of magnitude more hits than mine. Besides, nobody is stopping you from writing your own blog discrediting mine and explaining how great SKNY is.

Is it because you think I’m inventing evidence? I’m not — all of the facts I mention come with citations of some kind, generally links to SEC filings.

Is it because you think it’s immoral for a private individual to express his opinion on his personal blog? Have we really come to the point where it is wrong to even suggest that a stock is overvalued?

Or is it because you’ve lost a lot of money recently and now, bitter, you are searching for a scapegoat?

I am doing nobody a disservice by expressing my opinions and corroborating them with publicly verifiable facts. In fact, readers who sold when I first suggested SKNY was overvalued got out within five cents of the top. Maybe my insight wasn’t so bad, after all.