re: signature, it seems amazingly childish to me.
When you look at handwriting, you look at ascenders like an f that naturally goes above the line, descenders like g and f that go below, and the middle zone--generally the lower-case letters that just sit on the line, like o and i. Power players tend to have descending loops that reach way down, ambitious people have ascenders that rise high. Ego shows up in the strength of the middle zone. In Nifong's case, all of his letters, including the capital M and N initials, remain pretty close to the middle. This could even suggest a certain balance in his makeup (if it weren't for some obviously strange letters).
The descender on his g is pretty average, not a sign of depression--it's descenders that go down without coming back up that indicate being down on yourself in some way. His g is quite average, what my expert friend calls "school form," even childish, suggesting, I think, that he doesn't really have the power to be a power player, though his ego might not be capable of seeing his (literal) shortcomings. The peculiar slanted descender on M and N that do not actually belong there might suggest a certain tendency to swordplay or perhaps self-defeat.
Having the letters all run into each other with no space between looks exceedingly anal to me. Absolutely no intuition in that signature, which shows up as space between letters. This guy is tightly wound. Rigid.
But the most unusual and interesting feature is the shape of the M and N. Those big upward humps suggest, imo, that the guy never exhales. The middle initial B is very unusual but I can't get a take on it ....what do you think?
To moi, rigidity plus extreme ego plus childishness suggest possible pathology. Whoda thunk?
Wow, thanks! I believe you have him all figured out!