The roots of the Todd Seavey C-SPAN rant: Did lovelorn libertarian plot panel-discussion revenge against ex? And where'd his blog go?

Libertarian blogger Todd Seavey beefing with his ex, live on C-SPAN. (C-SPAN) Todd Seavey blindsided everyone, especially ex-girlfriend Helen Rittelmeyer, when he ripped into her during a panel discussion on C-SPAN2. But no surprise, really: The blogger has been living out loud -- the good, the bad, the breakups -- for years. The 40-something libertarian posted a super-exacting personal ad on his blog in 2007 ("Is your IQ, if it has been tested, significantly above average?") A year later, he announced to readers that Rittelmeyer was his new girlfriend: "Obscenely young, wise-beyond-her-years, conservative, blogging, Catholic, New Wave-loving, monster-movie-viewing, Southern-extracted, Yale-educated, technically-libertarian person." They bickered, broke up and reconciled -- all chronicled on his blog. (The postings have disappeared from his site, but live forever via Google cache.) The two finally called it quits about a month ago. National Review Online editor Jonah Goldberg invited Seavey and Rittelmeyer to speak

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