In the course of reviewing an LA Press Club event, Luke Ford made an uncomplimentary remark about John Patrick Frey, the LA blogger who goes by “Patterico:”
Blogger Patterico had the misfortune of following Kaus, the model of an unpretentious intellectual, and said one-tenth as much as Mickey in ten times as much time (even though he’d been told ahead of time he’d be a featured guest, which should have clued him that he’d be speaking).
But Ford spelled his handle right, so JP linked him. Clearly, this is devotion to truth.