Via Slog…  Another reason not to check myself into an Ex-Gay ministry…

“A Consequence of Misuse of the Internet”

That’s how a New York judge has summed up this tragically effed-up mess, in which a 48-year-old man (who’d been posing as an 18-year-old Marine in online chat rooms) murdered his 22-year-old rival for the virtual affections of a middle-aged West Virginia mother posing online as an 18-year-old student.

The Associated Press untangles it all for you here.

You know…I’ve never lied about myself on the Internet…about my age or my looks or my income or anything.  Not on the Internet, not on the few dating sites I’ve tried.  I just don’t do it.  Believe that or not as you like, but I’ve never even used a pseudonym.  I’ve have always gone by my birth name online.  It’s not rectitude, it’s vanity.