Back at Columbia, my roomate was a Cuban-American lawyer. She insisted that if you are a lawyer, it is an absolute that you can write. All lawyers know how to write, she added. If law school can teach you one thing, it is the capacity to write well.

But now an apologist for Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez named Eva Golinger, who says she’s a lawyer, has taken to writing malevolent – and sub-literate – gibberings full of raging personal attacks against noted investigative researcher Alek Boyd. Her suspect activities have been exposed by Boyd, and she’s reacted like a cornered rat on the rag. Anyone can see her reasons, of course, but who wouldn’t wonder about her professionalism? And unlike other lawyers, this “lawyer” can’t spell, write clearly, use proper grammar or make coherent arguments.

I am amazed at what’s getting through law schools these days. It makes me wonder if this ex-garage-band singer turned Chavez apologist actually did.