Remember Todd Henderson?

He was the Chicago Law School professor who wrote a blog post saying that his household salary of more than $250,000 didn't make him "rich."

It was, on its face, a very reasonable post. He said that while Obama was labeling quarter-million earners as "wealthy," $250,000 really didn't get you very far if you were a family living in a major city. "Like most working Americans," Henderson wrote, "insurance, doctors' bills, utilities, two cars, daycare, groceries, gasoline, cell phones, and cable TV (no movie channels) round out our monthly expenses."

If his taxes went up, he said, he would have to cut back.

The blog post ignited a new class battle on the web and Henderson – who was virulently attacked on the web as a "rich whiner" -- eventually pulled his blog post and retreated from the public eye.