I long lost my respect for ties. It began when I realised that men are voluntarily wearing inverted gallows around their necks. The picture of Mr. Ebell emanates the arrogance of black suited commerce to me adhering to an ideology that is as tunnel-visioned as creationist "science".

And George Joseph Smith who? Don't know the chap. Wikipedia gives an entry on the Brides in the bath murderer, which seems to fit the profile...