I feel I must correct the KewlJ here. It's not my job, but he gets so many basic things purposefully wrong while using language softening the lying by not being precise or specific. The technique gets old, especially when he could look up the specifics with a simple search.
First the correction. The Johnson City Book Club event was, as kewlJ well knows, not about anything I wrote but about Billy Walters' book, Gambler. Since I had worked for Mr. Walters, I was chosen as co-chair for that particular book. The other co-chair was someone who helmed a large sports gambling cartel in Las Vegas concurrent with Walters' Computer Group. Between us, we covered the topic and the book pretty well.
Now, to more on kewlJ. Anyone in law enforcement who has conducted interviews will recognize kewlJ's style. He persistently writes with a purposeful lack of detail and specifics, relying to make his points on gross generalizations unanchored to any real events. It's classic and obvious. Why do people avoid details? Because details pin them down as being data points they must defend and that can be referred back to specifically. So if you are bullshitting, you avoid actual details. For example, "Was writing some kind of gambling book" in his post above is obvious for its (1) lack of specifics because it (2) is completely wrong. Now how does someone decide to refer to a historical event (a book club meeting) out of the blue but manage to purposefully get the topic of the meeting completely wrong? The answer, of course, is that is his intention. Many of kewlJ's posts have this blaring bullshit red alert style. He tries to evade responsibility for (1) being completely wrong but (2) bringing it up anyway through (3) his off-the-cuff informal style, which is just a cover excuse for his (1) being completely wrong and (2) bringing it up anyway.
Any kind of simple analysis of kewlJ's posts reveals this planned, completely dishonest presentation. He's too cool to check details, after all, too busy, too relaxed, but he'll spout them anyway because it's not his fault he's dead wrong. He does this stuff repeatedly. If he gets taken to the Singer woodshed, he then ignores the fact he got caught with his logical pants down. It'll be interesting to see what malarkey he writes to justify writing about a book club meeting and completely misrepresenting what I was doing there, what the topic was, and basically got everything wrong, evidently on purpose.
Let's guess his response. Oh, he was too busy to check. Then why post? Oh, he just didn't remember. Then why post? Oh, he got everything wrong, but his point was good. LOL.
Classic kewlJ. He bullshits, gets caught bullshitting, then makes up some excuses for why he lied. That's how you manage to come back from the dead, get your arm broken at South Point, have Nersesian on speed dial, and so on. The truth and kewlJ are very rarely in the same room.
And MDawg, quote me on that.