Say Anything Blog

When a post finally appeared on Amanda Doerty's site, claiming that she was for real, for many people it seemed to be enough. For others, it didn't seem so convincing. I was easily able to see the possibility that the author of the abercrombie blog would drag this out, have some fun, raise their popularity, and finally come forward some time in the future or no.

Yet after she did claim her pspsyudonymity, and confirmed she, the writer, was the philosophy major in the photograph, there were two events that set me off onto my first major investigation.

First, Wizbang posted a response to his blog claiming that Amanda had confrimed her existence by the mere fact that she did in fact respond on her blog. Hmmm. I post therefore I am. I had ever heard of Kevin before all of this, but it seemed odd to me that someone who had invested enough time and effort into her would take this post as a definitive answer. No phone call even?

After taking a closer look into Wizbang, I was immediately embarrassed for my friends and colleagues who may have been following this story as the content of Wizbang's site is basically gross, sexist, chillingly cold-war like, perhaps even racist as well as seemingly full of bashing other cultural traditions and lifestyle choices.

Also, Wizbang's writing style seemed somehow desperate and exhausted.

A second event occurred. Wizbang added a comment to Cameron's blog which was the first true sign of stress for anyone involved in this whole ordeal. I believe everyone involved must have felt some form of excitement and believed this would be a great laugh and an interesting situation no matter what happened - a riddle or a puzzle to be solved - but Wizbang seemed to be aligning against everyone else. He responded to Cameron thusly: