Oh, this is going to drive me nuts until I identify Freethinker. You've dropped enough hints that I feel like I really should have picked up on him by now, but I haven't seen anything that quite fits. Or that's even really close. My google skills are usually much better than this.

MadBoy's a riot: hasn't he ever heard of answering machines? Wow.

You have to take into account the fact that I haven't actually read the book or the website or anything. Some of my ramblings about what it's all about might be 'way off base. (All of my perceptions are based on that one remark of Bernie'--the "jeebus meets strtk" one.)

Madboy may and/or may not have heard of answering machines. Based on the "missed calls" report I get each morning, he's far from being the only 'Nut who has trouble getting the phone answered--even during BUSINESS hours.

I can't really figure out what was behind the restrictions on the new campaign. Either deliberately setting me up to fail (I wouldn't put it past him) or complete ignorance (also not out of the question).

What's more disturbing, perhaps, is the number of different possibilities that came up when I did searches on the terms you've mentioned. There's a lot of freethinking out there, so to speak.

You're braver than me--I haven't even run any test searches. (Maybe that's because you're not threatened with the possibility of the Freethinker as a client?)

Obviously, of course, the names I select to hide the identities of the guilty (or, occasionally, innocent) are whatever random thing that occurs to me the first time I mention them. My "clues," in other words, aren't reliable.

Also? There are a LOT of k-u-l-ts out there these days. I'd hope that identifying any one of them based on such meagre clues would be impossible.