Remember the idea of a doppelganger? An evil twin, look-a-like?

I recently (through an act of vanity) typed "Michael S. Pierce" into Google. Many of the results were not surprising. I, the real me, showed up quite often. However, the 4th hit was profoundly disturbing. Apparently some there's a registered sex offender that has stolen my name. I'm not sure why that's so upsetting, but it is. Even merely the association by name only with such a person (and act) is something I find disturbing. Plus I never want to have to explain, "no, no... that's the OTHER Michael Scott Pierce."

I don't care that he's older than me. By becoming a sex offender he lost all legal rights to the good name.

Removing my middle initial from the search request removes me entirely from the first few pages of results. sigh... At least it's not filled with 12 dozen pages of sex offender hits.