Westside Tory Guy

The Westside White Guy just can't stand it when other bloggers get some attention. In light of the recent bitch slap given by the Foothill Cities Blog to the City of Pomona who tried to threaten a local blogger, Kevin Roderick thinks it's "B.S." to compare anonymous bloggers to colonials in pre-Revolutionary War America who published anonymous tracts critical of the government.

The WWG says:

Their (the Foothill Cities Blog) About page doesn't clarify what they are hiding or disclaim any conflicts of interest.

Neither did Alexander Hamilton, John Jay or James Madison who wrote The Federalist Papers, the pre-Internet, post-Revolutionary War America version of an anonymous blog, critical of government.

Indeed, FC alludes to the Papers, which called for ratification of the US Constitution in the 1780s, in that one of the anony-bloggers at FC goes by the handle "Publius," the very same pseudonym used by Jay, Hamilton and Madison.

Had the WWG been around in the 18th century, publishing Colonies Observed, no doubt he would have been a pissy tory.