Sadly, No holds this truth to be self-evident that every thug who attacks American interests should be entitled to all the same constitutional protections as the ordinary blokes who live here, and takes Human Events Online to task for suggesting otherwise. But the real kicker is the dumb aleck heading:

Guess they studied Con Law with Ann Coutler

Ann “Coutler” (Coulter) studied con law, along with everything else law, at the University of Michigan, a top ten law school, made law review, and later clerked for a federal appellate judge. Obviously, not everyone who studied con law with Ann Coulter made law review or got a federal clerkship, but they did all get in to a top tier law school, so they couldn’t have done too badly by most people’s standards. [Full disclosure: I didn't get in to University of Michigan myself, though I was waitlisted there. As a likely victim of the affirmative action program the Supremes upheld a couple years back, I had to settle for Boalt Hall instead.]

Mr. No, however, finds Coulter’s legal (or at least constitutional) education not only lacking, but so obviously bad that its badness extends far beyond her, tainting anyone who may have studied with her in law school. One possible explanation is that Mr. No is a bit of a snob, whose own law degree came from Yale, where he served not merely as a lowly law review editor but the chief editor, before going on to clerk for a Supreme Court Justice rather than that piddly appellate riff-raff. Any others?

UPDATE: The least consequential problem of this post, the spelling of Ann Coulter’s surname, has been fixed. Has the logic underlying the entry? Sadly, no.

UPDATE x2: In response to this post, Sadly, No has just promoted Coulter from the rank of constitutional idiot, which she’s not, to ” world’s leading constitutional scholar,” which she’s also not, by pegging her to a controversy that has nothing to do with the Constitution. What did I say about mixing sarcasm with ignorance?

I’ve blogged about Schiavo before but have little to add now. Following the story feels too much like watching a snuff film, and I just can’t do it anymore. Dean Esmay has said all I have to say anyway, so be sure to check his entry out.

If you’ve posted a comment here over the past week, there’s a good chance it was lost due to a hardware failure. I’ve rebuilt most of the original posts, and some of the comments, and will try to rebuild more over the weekend.

UPDATE: All the comments are back, as are the last versions of the entries that Google stored. Subsequent revisions have been reconstructed to the extent I can remember what they said.