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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

I chose my nic essentially as a way to assure people here I am not easily offended. I believe whole-heartedly in the value of transgression.

I went through a fanatical UseNet phase from '93-95, got bored, spent three years as a homeless insane transvestite junkie, got back into the 'net in about '99, and then got seriously politicized after 9/11.

Libertarian, Keynesian with Marxist leanings, pacifist, atheist, ex-pat Brit, musician, borderline conspiracy nut.