Mighty Righty Ryne McClaren actually has a pretty good piece about all the "outing" going on this week in SoDakBlogOLand.  He at has least one good point I agree with:

Now here's my question: If you start a blog, wouldn't it just be a hell of a lot easier to start signing your name to your posts on Day 1?

I think the best answer is yes.

However, some people choose not too, which is a fact of the BlogOSphere.  That includes my good virtual friend, S.D. Blog Watch Man.

So, SDBWM shut down rather than risk outing.  Theron McChesney (thunewatch.com) and Nathan Peterson (PIADW) self outed, perhaps in response to my earlier story about the Robert Novak researcher giving me a call.  Then again, maybe not.  Maybe, to coin a phrase, "It's time."  (Don't any of you other guys have listed phone numbers the MSM can call?)

Anyway, I did want to clarify one of Ryne's points that I'm not sure I made real clear in my initial audio posting:  The Novakista didn't know who SDBWM was but knew of him.  He wanted me to spill the beans.  I didn't and anyway, I didn't know who he was at the time.  I have subsequently learned who SDBWM is.  My lips are sealed.

Novak's myrmidon (Success! I used it in a sentence!) also wanted me to spill the beans on Theron, who I knew (I didn't spill said beans) and Nathan (who I didn't know and don't know and so couldn't have spilled said beans if I had wanted to).  The ruthlessly enthralled Novakian did know about Chad Schuldt (CCK). 

So, I upheld the LeftyOSphere's vow of omerta.  Novak Researcher Dude also thought I was a former Daschle staffer.  I am not, just a friend and supporter who did a very small amount of legal work for the campaign committee much prior to the election.  I ride alone.  (Maybe I need to change my deodorant.)  But why does everyone think I'm Tom's former employee?  No, no, no, no I am not.

I did find it kind of funny that Bob Novak, deep in the midst of the Valerie Plame outing, was sniffing around this. 

Now that most everyone is in the blogging sunshine (there's an oxymoron, with emphasis on the moron part), I would image Bulldog Bob's anti-Thune story will probably evaporate, but hey, who knows.  I'm just Girls Soccer Coach Pajama Fat Boy Lawyer (GSCPFBL for short).  I could be wrong.

Does anyone besides us bloggers care about this whole topic?  Seems a little too inside the game for most folks.