Sigh ... all right, I've been suckered yet again.

Apparently, there is no real conservative blogger "Dizzy Gillespie". It is, in fact, just our old buddy "Jay Gatsby" posting under a new pseudonym. Need proof?

Consider Mr. Gatsby's now-defunct blog "View of the Republic". Scroll down until you see his list of favorite links (what he calls the "Republic's Top Sites"):

• American Lady
• Blame Bush!
• Free Iraqi
• Impudent Finger
• Iraq The Model
• Jihad Watch
• Little Green Footballs
• Michelle Malkin
• Road of a Nation
• Sand in the Gears
• Shock and Blog
• The Captain's Quarters
• The Dawn Patrol
• The Story Teller
• Wizbang

And over at Mr. Gillespie's blog, we have his list of "Gillespie's Links":

• American Lady
• Blame Bush!
• Free Iraqi
• Impudent Finger
• Iraq The Model
• Jihad Watch
• Little Green Footballs
• Michelle Malkin
• Road of a Nation
• Sand in the Gears
• Shock and Blog
• The Captain's Quarters
• The Dawn Patrol
• The Story Teller
• Wizbang

Now, what are the odds that two people could have such similarly depressing, anti-intellectual tastes in other people's work?

And, yes, that's a rhetorical question.