I'd say that the webzine Slate itself reads like a poorly-written high school student newspaper, but that would be insulting to poorly-written high school student newspaper editors and writers.

Is it just me or has Dalia Lithwick's name been absent from public discourse for a while? It's as if she'd been shuttled off to a place of quiet irrelevance where she belongs.

With Lithwick and Amanda Marcotte both writing for Slate, they should be really proud of themselves.

Lithwich seems to think that snark *excuses* falsehood. From my own polite exchange with her in 2005: http://beldar.blogs.com/bel...

I do give her high marks for snarkiness, but she's the most intellectually dishonest legal commentator I know.

I agree. I was shocked a few years ago (while I was in law school) when she was invited to speak at a school-sponsored event as a professional commentator on the legal field. Everything I have read by her is either extremely misleading or just flat out false.

I believe Dahlia Lithwick is Exhibit A of the "Sanctimonious White Lady" syndrome that Kevin Williamson wrote about a while back. Dahlia is an execrable human; she is entirely emblematic of the bitter, smug, arrogant coastal elite female who sees modern American womanhood as somehow more repressed than that of the Saudi or Pakistani female. What a joke she is.

Lithwick probably thinks it's a crime to joke about bitter, smug, arrogant, coastal elites who see modern American womanhood as somehow more repressed than that of the Saudi or Pakistani female.