What's with the name Earl?

If you came to this blog from the Revelation class at East Cobb Presbyterian Church, you might be surprised that I'm using the name Earl here instead of ... . You've reached the right place. I prefer the Internet name Earl because I like to keep my real name off the Internet. This comes from sometime ago when I went through an episode of identity theft. At first the police and federal investigators thought it might be due to my Internet presence, which was very public at the time. While later investigators identified the probable source of my identity theft to an inside job at a credit card company, and caught and prosecuted the particular perpetrator, I have decided to take a low Internet profile since then. So, while you know me as … at church, my presence on the Internet is Earl Flask.