Sad, but there it is.

Today, our mad-as-Health blogger, who on widely scattered occasions manages to wipe the foam from his mouth and venture a blog post on esoteric topics like health, as opposed to the vicious monolithic ungodly left-wing campaign to dictate the color and flavor of therapeutic Jolly Ranchers, tackles the topic of anonymity.

Why Anonymity

Anonymity is sometimes criticized on this and other blogs. But there are legitimate reasons why anonymity is at times appropriate.

After this bland beginning, the formerly pseudonymous (when it suited hospital politics) Dr. Dan rapidly and paranoically devolves to regular form, presenting a lengthy, verbatim recitation of a Heritage Foundation missive on Proposition 8 in California, one depicting brave resistance fighters ducking down hinged plastic tree stumps leftover from the Hogan's Heroes set in order to evade nazi-like Obama-ist harassment and complete their holy mission of sticking it to the non-Biblical gays in the name of theocracy.

We constantly read these logic-as-twisting-mountain-goatpath polemics to anonymity as the very epitome of courage, but what floors me is how people otherwise disposed to exalt manly virtues never quite get around to explaining why standing tall behind one's name isn't indicative of similar ethical principles.

Maybe that's hypocrisy, or maybe it's cowardice, but either way, it's no place I want to be.

Then again, I'm not the one screaming bloody murder while tumbling through space somewhere on the fringe of a paranoid conspiracy theory.