I recently met Dr. X, a Manhattan psychiatrist who is also an anonymous conservative blogger. At the biography section of his Web site, at Shrinkwrapped.blogs.com, he writes: "I am a practicing Psychoanalyst, Psychiatrist, with four children, living with my wonderful wife in the suburbs of New York, and trying to make sense of the unreality around us."

I cannot disclose where Dr. X's office is located, what he looks like, how old he is, or any other tiny hint that might jeopardize his practice.

The article becomes an homage to bloggers:

I asked Dr. X why he started his blog. Not surprisingly, he answered, "It was 9/11, the day that the world changed for everybody. I was frustrated because I wasn't getting the real news from the usual sources, so I went to the Internet and that turned everything around. There I could even access what was being reported in the Arabic press."

Blogging is a great way for the average person to put in their two cents on current events, but many of the bloggers are far from average. Often, they are professionals like Dr. X who can provide expert analysis on important issues. From the comfort of their homes, the personal bloggers can expound, expose, or merely opine in varying levels of expertise on any subject. They have become known as the "pajamahadeen," and their most significant achievement has been bringing about the demise of the CBS anchorman, Dan Rather.

. . . My niece, who lives in Georgia and is a Democrat, called me soon after the Katrina disaster. While she knows I am a supporter of the president, she remains open-minded. Nevertheless, she commented on the horrors being reported in New Orleans and asked whether I agreed that the administration had blundered terribly. I then asked her where she was getting her news, and she listed every local liberal newspaper and the New York Times as her sources.

"If you want the facts," I advised her, "log on toLucianne.com." . . . all the significant news gets a thorough vetting from a community of inquiring minds, like our own Dr. X, who are anxious to ferret out the facts, not the spin. The truth is out there and it's online.

Of course the Sun is preaching to the converted, but we can always show pages to our snotty friends . . .