As you know Jeff puts himself out there, his brutal honesty and giving of himself sometimes allows him to become a target for those who wish to make personal attacks for some mythical egotistical self rightiousness. Jeff being the person that he is will defend himself to a point and then sees that he too is being drug down to the attackers level. Being a man, and not someonetoo hidebehind the muscle that the internet anonomously, provides, he's decided to take leave fora while.