So I just now read Josh Marshall's post explaining why DK won't use his real name. Same reason as Armando attempted (poorly) to remain anonymous. He's a lawyer and the law firm gets skittish and the clients get snotty about their peopel blogging. Well too fucking bad I say. If you want the glory, if you want the pulpit you have to take the risk. If you're someplace like TPM you sure as hell better have your real name out there. It's always annoyed me but until Josh's post it never annoyed me enough to speak out.

I'm a law school student. I understand better than most how not pissing off the firm is important. If you do get outed, your work level may drop and if you get fired you get blacklisted. I think it's stupid that firms get their panties in a bunch over this and if I ever start my own law firm it will not fire bloggers because they're bloggers. I swear this on the life of any future children. But if you're worried you should stay out of the front-page politics of it.

Josh should find someone who doesn't feel the need to hide and I think less of DK for not declining the opportunity to post on the frontpage or for not throwing caution to the wind and revealing their real name. Boo-fucking-hoo.

Update: To respond to a few of the comments below...

I completely agree that DK is a good writer and has good content. I think I prefer DK to Josh Marshall if I had to choose. To my understanding nothing I said indicated I thought DK was lacking in quality or ability. Now most blogs I don't expect to hold to the same standard as newspapers but I do for the megasites such as the frontpage of DailyKos and quality sites such as TPM simply because of Josh Marshall's incredibly credibility both online and in the print media. He's in journalism text books for God's sake.

Nothing I said above indicates that I think less of Josh Marshall's credibility either.