For a couple of months I’ve pointed out that Pam Karlan has published false scholarship in the Duke Law journal about the Bush administration’s record of voting rights enforcement.  I cover all the details here.  I became particularly interested in Karlan’s false scholarship after she attacked George Will in the Washington Post for using imprecise language, as she called it.  

Over time, it was amusing watching two things.  First, Cal Irvine law professor Rick Hasen is quick to pester any conservative about perceived errors, or, even failing to post one of his comments or mail him a grand jury report that someone obtained.  While pestering conservatives in the strangest and most obsessive of ways, he gives a pass to the false scholarship of a left wing professor.  If he ignored people like John Fund or Hans von Spakvosky, instead of disparaging them, I would ignore him.  But he can’t seem to ignore them, yet fully ignores Karlans falsehoods.

For pointing this out, the “scholar” proclaims the observations of his biased inconsistencies are from “bizzaro world.”   Tough thoughtful stuff, it is.  But a playground style deflection of the contrast between his obsession with Fund/vonSpakovsky and his near hero-worship of the dishonest Karlan isn’t bizzaro world, or even bizarre.  Its a simple observation that he doesn’t shoot straight, but far too many people think he does (probably including most of his students).

It isn’t “bizzaro world” to point this out, and you’d expect more from someone who seems to strive to be taken oh-so-seriously.