I disagree wrote:
It didn't take a month of investigating for Hal Higdon, a public figure, to call Mike Rossi a sociopathic cheater...
Clearly, I am on no position to know whether Rossi is a sociopath (and it's not as if there's a blood test for antisocial personality disorder anyway), but she doesn't strike me as someone who fits the bill. He seems like an everyday self-serving scofflaw with an outsized ego (typical of people who get involved with radio, be they successful like Howard Stern or nobodies like Rossi) whose desire to run the Boston Marathon led him to methodically plan how to get there by cheating.
A true sociopath probably would not have gone into duck-and-cover mode as quickly as Rossi did, if at all. Rather than protect his tweets and make his blog members-only, he would have continued loudly insisting that he ran the whole way at the Via Marathon and screw the haters who claim differently. He probably doesn't feel a lot of guilt or remorse; rather, he's angry he was caught and is probably kicking himself for dragging the principal into this, not because of its effect on her but because this led to his initial outing as a cheater.
Naw, I think he's just a self-important loudmouth whose psychosocial development never extended beyond the eighth grade. In his selfies and other pics, he looks like a 13-year-old kid wearing makeup that makes him appear 35 years older.
If you want to see the work of an undisputed sociopath, go here:
www.140milesatatime.comYou almost don't need any of the backstory to quickly grasp how twisted this woman is, living in a private reality in which everyone else is the reason she's chronically unemployed, continually intoxicated, and has burned every meaningful bridge she's ever navigated.