The Wizard's Snowball

This is rad. Jeff Solochek: LAND O'LAKES — Marge Whaley has been called her share of names during her 16 years on the Pasco County School Board.

But nothing compares to the vitriol of Whaley's correspondence from the past two weeks.

"I've been called the worst things I've been called as a School Board member," said Whaley, who has received as many as 50 angry calls and e-mails a day from all over the country. "I got called an 'effing' idiot on my voice mail. … I got called an incompetent turd."

The subject of their venom? A local TV report about a Pasco substitute teacher who claimed to be fired for "wizardry."