I deliberately abstained from participating in this thread because sometimes a net must be let do it's work, and this one gathered up all the usual suspects, as well as a few extra holier-than-thou Jesus-pimps, who never miss an opportunity to demonstrate just how unChristian their lack of charity can truly be.

Not surprisingly those who protested the loudest have the least to protect, just as those who attacked, tried to provoke, retaliate and then scurried off to fraywatch with their tails between their legs are the very ones most accurately portrayed above. If there's a meaningful or logical correlation between their behavior, as delineated, and the fact that I happen to live on a small Island called Ireland, then I'd really love to know what that might be.

For the record, some of the worst things I've witnessed in the Fray in my four years here have involved one or more of the posters mentioned above. Recently, LAM's publication of Ellen's and Tempo's private emails has thown a pall over the place. By doing that LAM showed the utter depravity of her character: she showed there's no limit to what she will or will not do [even to her own friends] to get even. Couple this with her slanders of posters like Michael Ryerson, Dawn Coyote, ThyGoddess, Schmutzie, Schadenfreude and catnapping, to mention only the most obvious ones, her involvement in every single flame war, her serial and cyclical spamming and all the other shit she's been up to and the image of a very sick person comes into focus.

It was reprehensible what LAM did, unequivocally, and I condemn it, and the fact that it was Ellen and Tempo she betrayed doesn't detract for one second from her perfidy. And yet ... and yet, those of us who read and copied those emails couldn't subsequently unread them or unknow what they contained. It shed a whole new light on these posters and others involved in their behind-the-scenes machinations. Neither Ellen nor Tempo have ever denied writing what they wrote, but there was enough outrage justifiably concentrated on LAM's actions to make that a moot point. After I read Tempo's emails, I was no longer surprised that herself and LAM had proved to be denny's greatest enablers: no doubt denny was whipped into a righteous frenzy by their cloak-and-dagger inducements. They proved to be a mutual cajolery club, spurring one another to new lows of treachery.

And yet again, I'm the devil incarnate for pointing all this out, as is any other poster who dares. I'm the anti-christ for holding denny to some account and so is everybody else who finds his repeated theft of intellectual property inexcusable. I'm a drunken Irishman in a white rage for drawing attention to Tempo's devious emails, which she wrote, and for alluding to the fact that she attacked SoutherG by mining information on her daughter. I'm the object of unbridled opporobrium because I challenged Ellen's hypocrisy. And so I must be Chango to justoffal and ThyGoddess to Tempo [as I once was catnapping to LAM] because that's the only thing that could possibly explain my criticism of their recidivistic inanity. Substitute lib'ral for Dallas and some shit from Kazantzakis for ci-inc and the result is still the same.

And there we'll leave it.

[Apologies to CC for writing "Venice" instead of "Verona".]