The first clue that "Turin" and "Stormy" were one and the same...


....which, of course meant that "Turin" was writing love letters to
himself...


.... came in the similarity of their writing styles.

Nothing that I could really put my finger on, but the vocabulary and
syntax and personalities seemed to be the same.

You'd read a post from Turd, then you'd read a "reply" from
"Stormy"
saying "Great job, Turd" before rambling on and if you disregarded the
encomium, it really felt as though you were reading the same term
paper without interruption.

Among other things, I knew that the Turd had a hard-on for me, but why
such hostility from "Stormy"?  I didn't know a Stormy?  Did I?

It was also noteworthy that both "Turin" and "Stormy"
post to Google
directly.

Many people do, of course, but probably not most people.  Most people
probably use a newsreader - usually Microsoft Outlook Express.

So it was suggestive, but not in and of itself definitive, that both
"Turin" and "Stormy" post directly through Google.  

It was also suggestive, but not in and of itself definitive, that both
of them have yahoo mailing addresses in the sender-origination section
of their headers.

Shall I go on?


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"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their
disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as
their love of justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their
soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and
presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the
counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. 
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be
placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must
be without.  It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men
of intemperate minds cannot be free.  Their passions forge their
fetters."
     
     - Edmund Burke, Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)


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