Standardisation of the standards at The Standard

would it really hurt to say “Zetetic at The Standard” rather than just “The Standard”

What a pedant. It is a lefty blog. It is 'The Standard', nothing more. Just like any other blog or newspaper.

This particular pedant is summed up well here.

"The pedant is he who finds it impossible to read criticism of himself without immediately reaching for his pen and replying to the effect that the accusation is a gross insult to his person. He is, in effect, a man unable to laugh at himself."—Sigmund Freud, The Ego and the Id.