Unlike The Huffington Post, I'll admit it. I was fooled by Christwire.

Once a week, we like to look at traffic, just to see how we're doing.  A key activity is to see from where our traffic is coming.  Most comes from folks coming directly to the site (for which we're super-grateful).  Some comes from Twitter and Facebook.  More comes from google searches for things like "manroulette", "grindr blackberry", and "ghost writer house".  Then comes the traffic from other websites.

Recently, a few links came in from "christwire.org" on a rather random story.  The text used on Christwire linking the story to our site was: Even homosexual activists are trying to “sashay” in on the topic. This, well, annoyed me. We're not very "activist" and neither of us "sashay"'s. Or at least I don't.

As one does, I researched the post's author. Nothing much out there, until I checked Facebook. Following is the messages exchanged thereafter:

The Gawker link was checked.  Warnings rang out in my mind:  "Too insider-y."  And "too link crave-y".  So I played along, but took an aggressive stance:

Suddenly, the self-righteousness seemed outrageous enough to actually be real.  In my mind I was convinced that Stephenson Billings was a loony Christian.  With that determination, I chose not to further engage.  The key thing in dealing with delusional people for me is to let them stick to their delusions.  (Despite this, I did mention one of their bits in one of the morning news bits last week.)

Almost a month later and the cat is out of the bag.  I, along with several others, had been duped. Among those duped is that multi-authored hydra of liberal thought, The Huffington Post.  Caught with their pants down, instead of running a correction to a bit, they edited a piece to imply they were in on the joke.  I don't have such vanity, so here it is:  They got me.