Fetzer gets a listing in Urban Dictionary: 'Fetzering' is a term for talking balls.

[Adele Edisen]

Greg wote:

Fatigue is a strange beast. It alone can account for many of the symptoms we see. When that part of the mind has been on overdrive for so long, about so much, for so little in return, it can and will tend to hasten to the end of the fight--even when it is taking shortcuts onto dead end streets. Some of his recent "projects" such as, the "Oswald Innocence Project" might be likened to a man who is dying of thirst in the desert seeing what constitutes nothing more than a mirage and being told by his newly found nomadic fellow travelers that it is water.
Perhaps we are witnessing a very untimely critical mass for Jim...a meltdown called: BURNOUT

Could be, or what psychiatrists might call having an "Idee Fixe," a repetitive, compulsive attachment to certain mental constructions which cannot be given up even in the face of contradicting facts and ideas.

Adele