Is this more of Taranto's famous disingenuity?
From today's Best Of The Web:
The latest twist in the Larry Summers kerfuffle has a journalist, Richard Bradley né Blow (he changed names, the Times suggests, to escape notoriety that arose from an earlier book) speculating that Harvard's president may be disabled.
I can think of other reasons to have changed his name. Watch for Taranto to admit that he thought the same thing within the next couple days.