Talking From Ignorance

Greenwald gave a delicious takedown yesterday of these lunatics on the right that think that writing on the Internet gives them their own law degree, and that the can define "judicial activism" as "judges that rule in ways I don't like." I think it's a good cautionary tale that we should all live by; we need to assess the facts instead of assuming we have perfect knowledge of every situation that arises. I try to always consult the most expert sites when certain things come up (Greenwald on judicial issues, Juan Cole and Marc Lynch on the Middle East, etc).

Of course, this didn't stop Treason-In-Defense-Of-Slavery Yankee from stamping his feet and demanding that he knows all sorts of lawyerin' and judiciarin'. It's pretty amusing.

If a little less ignorance is the result of this battle, that'd be a good thing.