The Milton Berle--Or Is It the Dane Cook?--of Op-Ed Columnists?

Huh. Today's Washington Post features an article by Michael Gerson, usually a fairly moderate Conservative but today a bit shrill because of his emotional attachment to the underlying issue, trying to make Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg out to be a proponent of eugenics through abortion. Eugenics is the science of trying to improve the hereditary qualities of a race or breed, according to Merriam-Webster. I understand the emotion; if I shared his position I would be equally emotional. As it is, I'm no fan of abortion. I think very few are. But I think it's important women have that choice if they decide it's necessary. It's a provocative article that is purposefully unfair to Justice Ginsburg.

Anyway, the interesting thing about this article is that the always shrill nutjob Jonah Goldberg at the LA Times did the same hatchet job last week! The articles are also structured almost identically. Coincidence?

Look at me, shrilly trying to drag someone's reputation down, and with it discredit a whole area of thought with moral outrage when chances are good no moral outrage is warranted.

...Or is it?