Via Suburban Blight comes today’s ‘Hat of the Day, an unnamed Denton, TX pharmacist who refused to sell a morning-after pill to a rape victim on January 23.

Mr. Hat has not issued any public statements, but a friend of the victim tells WFAA Channel 8 that Mr. Hat nonexplained his refusal to dispense the drug thusly:

This medication is designed to end life, and I cannot abide by that.

Well, gee. Maybe he shoulda thought about that before taking a job as a pharmacist at a store that carries it. Here’s hoping that Eckerd and the Texas State Board of Pharmacy decide they can’t abide him.

Dishonorable mention to Reuters, WFAA, the Ass. Press, and every other major media outlet that has covered this story but has not identified Mr. Hat by name, nor provided any explanation as to why they are unwilling and/or unable to do so.

UPDATE: Gene Herr, a.k.a., Mr. Hat, has outed himself and stated that he was fired over the incident. So were the other two pharmacists on duty that day, who Herr refuses to name, and who also refused to fill the prescription. Good bye and good riddance to all three of them.

I’m a little concerned that that ‘Hat of the Day may become a regular feature on this blog. Granted, the name sounds like there should be one every day, which will not happen. If I committed myself to uncover a separate ‘hat every day of the week, every week of the year, the feature would soon become strained and contrievd, much like Slate’s tired “Bushism of the Day,” which now accomplishes little beyond providing Eugene Volokh with an unlimited supply of fisking fodder. So this is – I hope – the first and last time I will name three ‘Hats of the Day within the span of a single week.

Today’s award is to be shared between two co-conspirators, Silicon Valley “Humane” Society and an unnamed Los Gatos woman who they helped steal Niki Karanastasis’s dog, Bella – as a birthday present for her 10-year-old daughter. Mommy stealing for her daughter; isn’t that sweet? The “Humane” Society won’t name the woman, so for want of a better name I’ll dub her “Ms. Hat.”

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Say hello to Colorado Louie, the first blogger to earn himself the coveted “Asshat of the Day” award from damnum absque injuria, thereby joining the ranks of George “Let the Burglar Have Your House” Carpenter, Laura “I Hate to See American Soldiers Die But Not if it Gets a Democrat Elected” Eby, and Luke, the troll who expressed a hope that I or my firstborn “dies some day bye getting shot in the throat and choking on your own blood. “

This post, in which Louie defends Dean Weenie Steven Ybarra’s recent racist and inflammatory remarks about would-be Senator Rose Martin, was where it all started. That post alone was bad enough, but as a general rule, I don’t like to flame other bloggers without first giving them an opportunity to defend, retract or “clarify” their outrageous remarks. Well, Louie got his chance – two actually, but who’s counting? – but rather than use that chance to his advantage, he took the opportunity to dig himself in even deeper.

This passage from the original post pretty well sums up ol’ Louie’s explanation of why it’s OK to compare illegal aliens to slaves, and Rosario Marin to what Malcolm “X” Little once described as a “house [unrepeatable].”

Where was Rosario Marin last year when the GOP was suggesting that if Democrat Cruz Bustamante were elected governor he would try to make California part of Mexico? Wasn’t that way out of bounds?

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Asshat of the Day award goes to Wilmette, IL Police Chief George Carpenter, for arresting homeowner Hale DeMar for the only crime they take seriously in a region that prides itself as the nation’s murder capital: defending his home with a handgun. If DeMar had actually done anything wrong with his forbidden gun, he’d have violated state law, and the C(r)ook County D.A. would be the one going after him, instead. In fact, technically, the D.A. can go after him if they wanted to, for allowing his FOID (which, presumably stands for “Firearm Owner’s I Dentificationcard”) to expire in 1988, but apparently they thought it best to leave this one alone.

The same cannot be said of Mr. Carpenter or his quaint little Village of Wilmette, which apparently doesn’t take kindly to citizens who pose an unneccesary danger to burglars. Ignoring a mountain of data to the contrary, Carpenter non-explains his pro/persecution of Mr. DeMar thusly:

Wilmette homes are much safer without a handgun [sic], even if this situation on Linden last week was [sic] replicated.

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Today’s award is a tie between the San Francisco Chronicle, which had to ask whether or not it is wrong to root for the terrorists trying to destabilize Iraq, and Laurel Eby of San Jose, who answered that question in a way that made clear that her allegiance to the Democrat Party trumps any semblance of allegiance she might have to the U.S.:

I’m definitely torn, because I obviously don’t want any more of our soldiers getting killed, but I also wouldn’t mind the quagmire going on just long enough to ruin Bush’s re-election chances.

I probably shouldn’t reward trolls by giving them more attention, but this one is too asstastically stupid to pass up. About a month ago, I took the British Bullshitting Company to task for running an extremely misleading story on the justified homicide of Anthony Choate, a 16-year old burglar who set fires in strangers’ garages.

Somehow, Not-So-Cool Hand Head Luke found that entry, and replied with this extremely convincing, well-reasoned rebuttal:

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