I need to change my sock puppets.

You know on other blogs there is a lot of discussion over who is a sock puppet for another blogger and who they really are. Also, people are classified as trolls for the comments they post. Now luckily I don't have that problem because I certainly don't have enough commenters to nourish a troll garden. But it does interest me that there is so many comments and so much speculation as to who certain commenters "really" are in fact if not in name.

On Althouse, there has long been speculation that Cyrus Pinkerton was Amanda Marcotte the feminist blogger who had her problems with the Edwards campaign. I thought that was possible since Cyrus presented his thoughts in a way somewhat consistent with Miss Marcottes stated views. But who knows? No admission was ever made so it is all speculative.

Now they are claiming that Montana Urban Legend is also penned by Miss Marcotte. That seems less likely to me as her missives while very liberal, they are not as uniformly doctrinaire as Cyrus's best stuff. It's possible but unlikely.

I wonder how many of the other commenter's are set up by people who want to say something that won't be credited to their main identity. I knew I tried to snark under a few pen names when I was commenting way too much. But everyone knew it was me because my style seems to be very recognizable. Plus I always picked the names of movie characters as the name of the commenters. Maybe if I picked a different persona I won't be so recognizable. But probably not.

So I would appreciate the fact that no sock puppets have appeared as yet. But if any appear, I would hope that they would be fishnets. (Just if you're listening Amanda).