Anonymity

The Curmudgeonly Clerk has the latest in an ongoing discussion about anonymous bloggers.

Like the Clerk, I am only pseudo-anonymous. All of my friends, family, and most of my classmates know who I am. If you know my real name, it's not hard to find out that I'm Unlearned Hand. It is a little bit harder to go the other way. I have one and only one reason for my anonymity: I am a military officer, and though I would never purport to represent my thoughts as anything other than my own, I have to be careful with what I put in the public forum. Using a pseudonym just provides a little bit of distance.