This man deserves to be voted out of office this November... and thankfully... the entire House is up for election every two years so it could happen:

Kentucky Representative Tim Couch filed a bill this week to make anonymous posting online illegal.

The bill would require anyone who contributes to a website to register their real name, address and e-mail address with that site.

Their full name would be used anytime a comment is posted.

If the bill becomes law, the website operator would have to pay if someone was allowed to post anonymously on their site. The fine would be five-hundred dollars for a first offense and one-thousand dollars for each offense after that.

Via capper... which goes to show that no matter what your general political philosophy, we can always find common ground on some issues.  Rep. Couch would be well served to crack open a history book some day and read about the founding of our nation.  He would learn that the blogging tradition has been alive and well for over 250 years, even if not always in electronic form.  We are decedents of the original pamphleteers... and his law would have outlawed important works of this nation like Common Sense... of which Rep. Couch has none.  Though like Thomas Paine, his law would not stop me from blogging in any form, anonymous or otherwise.