ANOTHER BLOG COLLECTIVE

So TomPaine.com has a new blog. I got the same email note about it that you probably got. I just checked it out. It's lame.

What is it with lefty blogs and anonymity? Tapped has this "we are the blog" feel about it. And now comes along TomPaine-in-the-keister, with more of "we think" this and "we think" that. It's horrible and cowardly, not that all pseudonymous bloggers are cowardly. TomPaine's is cowardly because, presumably, they have people on staff writing the thing--people who are getting paid to blog, or more likely getting high school internship credit to blog. These people don't have to worry about bosses finding out about their blogs and firing them. Their bosses are telling them to blog. But they won't do us the courtesy of publicly owning up to their positions. They're just a bunch of ghosts spouting opinions they haven't the courage to put their names on.

Contrast their whispery anonymous blogging with the folks at National Review or Reason's Hit & Run, where the posters actually sign their work. No cowards there.

UPDATE: Before InstaPundit kindly linked us I'd already included a link to both NRO and Reason, but owing to my increasingly slipshod editing the NRO link got buried in bad html syntax. Corrected, reposted, etc.