[rmorein]

Despite the satirically altered photography of Brian McCarty that has
circulated the Internet, Brian is neither trim nor fat. He is about
6'2",
220 lbs, with a modest middle-age paunch. He has a fairly large bone
structure, but is not muscular. From the front, his face is squarish,
and
apparently flat, the nose small. However, in profile, he has
significant
mandibular protrusion, ie., extension of the lower jaw, in a "wicked
witch"
profile. His eye sockets are deep. His eye color is grey.

Brian's hair is straight, and silver gray, with no signs of recession
beyond
teenage levels. His face appears devoid of hair. His smile is always
close-lipped, probably to hide the cross bite malocclusion that
accompanies
mandibular protrusion. He appears to have an airway restriction, which
gives
his voice a choked upward pitch. His shoulders are very rounded.

The general appearance of Brian strongly resembles that of someone
with
Klinefelter's syndrome, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter's_syndrome,
when the affected individual has two X chromsomes. While many such
individuals have intelligence in the normal range, there is a high
incidence of psychosis. The individual is almost always sterile. The
breast
cancer rate is the same as among females, but when cancer occurs, it
tends
to spread more aggressively.

Brian is not simply a stay-at-home Internet addict; we know that for a
number of years, he has made a game of "counting coup", or "super-
spy",
traveling great distances to be physically near a stranger. It was
interesting to observe Brian playing his game. His face becomes a mask
with
a pasted-on-smile, and his eyes become fish-eyes. His demeanor is
nonthreatening. He may linger alone, then mingle in a clot of people
who do
not know him, using this fictitious association as a disguise.

The paradox of Brian is that in the past he has been a reasonably
competent
businessman, with a few sparks of inspiration, once demonstrated by
the
websites http://www.worldjazz.com, and http://www.coralseastudios.com
..
But his dark side, with which we are all familiar, is the compulsion
to
defame strangers, damage their businesses, steal identities, and even
destroy whole cyber-communities. Back in 2001, I decided to do what I
could
to blunt his influence. I thought that, perhaps, McCarty was simply
one of
those rough-edged individuals who we have come to know for their loud
mouths
and domineering personalities. I hoped that Mr. McCarty could be
dissuaded
from his antisocial activities. Instead, several of us became targets
of
McCarty, and were plaintiffs in a law enforcement investigation. But
Internet law was an infant, and prosecution was then declined by the
U.S.
Attorney, District of Connecticut.

In the intervening years, it became apparent that McCarty was involved
in a
number of dubious enterprises, which shared a common theme. There is a
Twilight Zone that separates the overtly criminal from the legal, and
an
even more nebulous region of offenses that, while technically illegal,
are
never prosecuted. McCarty is apparently fascinated by The Zone, and
fills it
with his fantasies: scams, undetectable harassments, nonmonetary
indentity
theft, and so forth. Some of the things he has tried have been
incredibly
nervy, with the quality of a Hollywood movie script. But all have been
failures, fueled by mania, but ungrounded in reality.

Brian is extremely upset right now. The chickens have come home to
roost.
His standard of living is about to decline rather precipitously.
While
Brian may blame other people, he has only himself to blame. Good,
honest,
people do not want to work with individuals like himself who inhabit
The
Zone.