DEAFENING SILENCE

NMnot Taylor Kingston has lost interest in
whether his ally Edward Winter has engaged in
repeated serial lying when claiming copyright for
photographs that are either in the USCF photo
morgue or owned outright by the USCF after its
purchase of Chess Review. We knew NMnot's
attention span would wander. As for word from
ChessCafe, the silence is deafening. -- - Larry Parr

Dear Phil Innes,

Taylor Kingston's attention still wanders. No doubt.

The deafening silence about Edward Winter's
claim at the ChessCafe to own many hundreds of
photographs would test any hearing aid. Our NMnot
does not wish to discuss the subject, and as a
libertarian, I support his right to silence.

Nor, Phil, need Mr. 2300+ Elo discuss his career
under false names on this forum, when he then praised
his own postings! If he were to speak frankly, I imagine
the explanation would run as follows: "I regard
myself as an honest man. In a moment of weakness,
caused by constant attacks from evil agents such as Sam
Sloan and Larry Parr, I took to adopting false names in order
to praise myself. This was wrong, but my fundamental essence
remains sound."

Something like that.

It helps to place oneself in the other guy's
shoes. By the way, my response to NMnot and the above
would be that no fundamentally sound moral personality
would be knocked from its moorings by attacks on these
chess forums -- of all places.

If NMnot were facing ruination, if he were
struggling to keep family together and the like, then
lapses would be far more understandable. None of us
can say with certainty what we would do in similar
circumstances. But when one permits ego to prompt
serial lying about one's identity here, then one is
not, in truth, a rock-ribbed personification of ethics.

In truth, contra NMnot's claim, he does not
entertain "standards." Except, to be sure, low ones.