From a reader:

Jonah,
I still have a quote from you saved on my computer regarding Newdow that you posted to The Corner on July 2, 2002. To my mind, it’s still as appropriate today as the day you wrote it:
“I hope everybody has read the New York Times profile of Pledge of Allegiance plaintiff Mike Newdow. They say that hard cases make for bad law. Well, nutcases make for worse law. This guy — who I am sure has a very high IQ — is precisely the sort of person I think of when I use the phrase “pugnaciously stupid.” It’s the aggressive nature of his idiocy, the in-your-faceness of his Jackassery, that so offends me. Like Peter Singer, he has that uncanny ability to articulate so eloquently ideas so dumb most of us don’t know how to respond to them. My contempt is boundless.”
Yep, that pretty much covers it.
Ben