Fellow travellers, if you peruse the rancid right-wing reaches of the blogosphere as I do from time to time, then surely you will have heard about a blogger called Alene Composta. Now, there is a meme going round that she is some kind of cyber-sock puppet created by a hateful conservative with the explicit intention of shaming the ABC.

As regular readers of this blog know, similarly vile and false rumours have been spread about myself. I have even been named by an appalling AmerKKKan com...
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