Tales from Bedlam

Over at the Bedlam Brigade site, Justin "Care in the Community" Horton continues his obsessive campaign of potentially libellous attacks on chessboxing.  According to the index on the Bedlam Brigade blog, it is already his twelfth (!) piece on the subject. If I were a man in a white coat, I'd be casting anxious glances in his direction.

"It was Keene, I tell you! He came straight from killing Princess Diana, with the lead piping in the drawing room, and then started blowing up the Twin Towers..." (photo: vnnforum.com)

Now today, one of his fellow Bedlamites, a certain Jonathan Bryant, has joined in the campaign, with a truly sidesplitting piece, about combining chess and serial killing, to form the ChessMurdering Organisation. Quoth little Jonny:

"The intellectual challenge of chess combined with the solid aerobic workout of trying to bludgeon somebody to death with a mallet. What’s not to like?

Of course, there is a certain attraction to the idea, but it would take someone with a greater degree of self-awareness than the Bedlam Brigade, to appreciate who might be top of the new organisation's hit-list. In fact, I wouldn't give Horton more than, say, six months...