Theory on Phil

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Anyone else suspect that he left the forum due to his wish to get involved in local politics and was worried about anything on the forum getting out? I rememeber him mentioning a rival appeared to read the forum

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

And Stark is actually running for office. Not that he stands a chane.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The careers of a couple of people in local politics over here have been wrecked by stupid-and-or-bigoted remarks online already. I look forward to this increasing over the next few years.

Well, in 30 years I presume such "shocking online truths" will become so commonplace as to be completely blasé.  Just imagine: right now, many future Presidents and Prime Ministers have Facebooks where they've uploaded pictures of them drinking underage and engaging in other questionable/"questionable" behaviors.

That the vast majority of voters at the time will have also engaged in, making it a rather moot issue.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

It's not that difficult to track people on the internet if they're honest about their contact info and all, especially now with MySpace and Facebook. A former poster here managed to dig up stuff I posted over 5 years ago on another forum before I even started posting on Atlas under a different name. That's part of the reason I refuse to add people from message boards as friends on social networking sites.