Experts (Noun): People Who Are Wrong About Everything

Sometime in the next couple days I’m going to formalize a new regular feature, Power Line’s Political Lexicon, which we’ll update regularly (especially with reader help). For now, I’ll offer the newest entry:

Expert (noun): People who are wrong about everything. Usually collaborators in Groupthink, and employed by government agencies or a university.

Exhibit 1:

Corollary: Whenever a news story says “experts say,” you can stop reading, or turn to the obituaries, where some of the reported facts might be true.

Chaser—It appears that at the Washington Post, you really can’t fix stupid:

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