Tom Spencer, Atrios and Roshmary's Baby

At Reason Online, Julian Sanchez heralds the triumph of "distributed journalism" in the strange case of John Lott:

But bloggers were more skeptical: Gross turned out to be a gun rights activist himself, with the group Concealed Carry Reform, NOW! Historian Thomas Spencer unearthed a letter to the Minneapolis Star Tribune in which Gross wrote that gun control advocates "dance on the graves of the innocent victims and glory in their spilled blood." Another blogger, the pseudonymous Atrios, found news reports recounting how Gross had taken over the names of several gun control groups that had neglected to renew their corporate status with the state.

Today John Lott, tomorrow George W. Bush!