The Washington Post has reported a weblogger's amusing bit of sleuthwork. Julian Sanchez discovered that American Enterprise Institute scholar John Lott, the author of the book More Guns, Less Crime, has been aggressively confronting his online critics and praising himself under the pseudonym Mary Rosh. "He was the best professor I ever had," Rosh told the members of the Usenet group alt.tv.west-wing.

Add a Comment

All comments are moderated before publication. These HTML tags are permitted: <p>, <b>, <i>, <a>, and <blockquote>. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA (for which the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply).