In a case that Thackeray investigated last year, she tracked down a Phoenix man who harassed his ex-girlfriend by posting personal ads in a Phoenix community Web site.
His columns on this topic have granted Bartlett semi-divine status on MSNBC and the ultimate digital apotheosis for ex-conservatives, a column addressing this topic published on the New York Times web site.
Where once a spurned lover could use scissors (literally) to cut an ex out of the picture, digital images of the smiling couple in happier days abound on the Web and are difficult to delete.