EUGENE VOLOKH writes that a Slate Explainer piece entitled “Will Charlton Heston Have to Give Up His Guns?” appears to be wrong on the law. It’s also in rather poor taste.

Volokh also provides a superb definition of the popular Blogosphere term “Fisking:” “a thorough and forceful verbal beating of an anti-war, possibly anti-American, commentator who has richly earned this figurative beating through his words.” Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Volokh also neatly capsulizes the history of the term: “The term refers to Robert Fisk, a journalist who wrote some rather foolish anti-war stuff, and who in particular wrote a story in which he (1) recounted how he was beaten by some anti-American Afghan refugees, and (2) thought they were morally right for doing so.”