There exists in the collective media mind a caricature of Denton as an evil, soulless, Machiavellian puppeteer: the Wizard of Blogs.

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To say that he was an evil young man who cruelly inflicted suffering on others simply because, in his mind, life had given him the shaft is not satisfying.

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Allan Bloom, in the "Closing The American Mind, " said that we can no longer conceive of evil because the only word we have for evil is Hitler, and that's become much of the political discourse.

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