hey, did juan cole just out billmon? i had no idea what his real name was, even though he's apparently local. was his identity some kind of open secret on the internet that no one told me about?
but if it wasn't an open secret, that wasn't very nice, juan. there have been a couple of posts recently about the value of anonymity. ever since south knox bubba was outed earlier in the week.
all this outing is just not cool. if someone is anonymous they usually are on purpose. i am kind of anonymous and i have all kinds of bad reasons for it. plus, most of my friends like to refer to me with my real name. but just because i don't give that much of a shit, doesn't mean we should pull the covers off of everyone's head. can't we all just play nice?
