“Hiking along the Appalachian trail.”

Via Patterico and Allah we learn that NOW has grown a spine and inducted David Letterman into their media hall of shame. Unfortunately, conservatives are represented there, too (though in that weasel Liddy’s case, I’d really like to know why NOW thinks “illegal alien” is a race).

Memo to jerk: When you out a pseudonymous blogger for no good reason, you are the one being irresponsible, not him.

UPDATE: Whelan apologizes.

UPDATE x2: More thoughts on outing anonymous and pseudonymous bloggers here.

Water is wet, and Gateway Pundit is full of crap. Past examples of Mr. Pundit’s craptitude include relying on a Rocky Mountain News article to “prove” Barack Obama is a citizen of Kenya, while conveniently ignoring that the RMN had subsequently distanced itself from “this erroneous information,” and best of all, slamming President Obama for writing a letter to former French President Jacques Chirac in response to a letter from … drum roll … former French President Jacques Chirac. I’m sure there are many other examples of Mr. Pundit’s craptastically bad reporting, but as a non-reader who only pays attention to him/her/it when other conservatives link to his crazy stories, these are the only ones I can cite off the top of my head.

Given his apparently perfect record of reporting misleading crap that was supposed to make liberals look bad but actually makes conservatives look bad for being gullible enough to believe it, I’m torn as to what to think about Mr. Pundit. Namely, is he (a) retarded or (b) a devious liberal trying to discredit conservatives by pretending to be one, spewing stupid, easily debunked crap, and then watching with glee as all the real conservatives follow him off the cliff?

HotAir reports that Rick Santelli has adopted one of the most annoying tactics of the left and claimed he was threatened by a White House which had in fact merely criticized him. Between this, the nuts who seemed to think the world would end (as opposed to merely sucking) if Obama became President and the überidiots who deny that he is the President now, I’m half tempted to switch gears. Rather than trying to rein in our own, let’s all start intentionally acting like complete and total asses from now through December 31. Then, on January 1, 2010, we can all take a deep breath, collectively declare 2009 “April Fool’s Year,” and start acting like adults again in time for the next federal election.

You in?

I recently griped about North Carolina’s stupid, fascist, unenforceable and officially unconstitutional sodomy law, but there’s no reason to single out NC except that I happen to live there. Other states deserving this same dishonorable mention include Alabama (Ala. Code 13A-6-65(a)(3)), Idaho (I.C. § 18-6605), Kansas (KSA § 21-3505), Louisiana (R.S. 14:89), Massachusetts (MGL Ch. 272 § 34), Michigan (MCL § 750-158), Mississippi (Miss. Code § 97-29-59), Oklahoma ( Okla. Stat. § 21-886), South Carolina (SCCL 15-16-120), Texas (Tex. Pen. Code § 21.06), Utah (UCA § 76-5-403) and Virginia (Va. Code § 18.2-361). Yes, I did say Massachusetts. Yes, that Massachusetts. The one commonwealth where gays have a right to marry, but any attempt to consummate that marriage is deemed “abominable,” “detestable,” and punishable by 20 years’ imprisonment.

Speaking of Pyrrhic victories, the Goodridges, who scored all Massachusetts gays the right to platonic marriage, are now exercising their newly won right to gay divorce. Isn’t that special?

Mecklenburg County, NC (Charlotte) is considering offering domestic partnership benefits to its employees. Today’s moron takes issue with the fact that they’re even considering it. After deriding gayness as “icky,” Mr. James pontificated further:

“We have no business even discussing it. We know it is illegal,” James said Wednesday. “Any type of common sense evaluation of this would say that you cannot offer health benefits for people engaging in behavior that the law says is a criminal offense.”

Presumably, by “the law” Commissioner Icky means either “the law as it existed until 2003″ or “the law as it presently exists in the parallel universe where the Ickmeister rules supreme.” What a maroon.

Just when it looked as though Allah had found the bottom, FoxNews reports that some dumbass from the Thomas More Law Center (but I repeat myself) is bringing a suit alleging that the federal government’s bailout of AIG is unconstitutional because one subsidiary of A.I.G., which is solvent and therefore not the subject of the bailout, anyway, offers homeowner insurance that is shariah-compliant. That’s right, according to this allegedly conservative group, this:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion

means this:

Congress shall provide no assistance of any kind to any private organization that doesn’t have anything to do with religion, but is owned by someone who also owns another private organization that also doesn’t promote an establishment of religion, but does sell products that don’t violate it, either.

Good Allah.

Eugene Volokh has a more sober take on this insanely stupid lawsuit.

UPDATE: Meanwhile, Liberty Counsel pushes an equally stupid lawsuit alleging a woman was illegally fired for refusing to wish patrons “Happy Holidays.” What is it with these people? Is there theory that the ACLU brings stupid, crazy liberal suits, so we need to balance things out by bringing equally stupid, equally crazy, allegedly conservative ones?

The Supreme Court has disposed of the silliest of the Obama truther cases, namely the one that acknowledges BHO was born in Hawaii but argues that his apparent dual nationality violates the emanations and/or penumbras of the Constitution. The other cases will surely be dumped in short order, as well.

Will this make the controversy go away? Naaaah. Should it? Probably not. The cases are stooooooopid as all get out, but the fact that the SC chooses not to rule on them is scant evidence of that. Denial of cert is the rule, not the exception.

Whatever the Obama-truthers think they’re proving, the only thing they are proving is that the right wing is every bit as capable of insanity as the left.