Does a Washington Post icon have an excuse for writing a column completely devoid of facts?

Facts are tricky things. I mean, they're actually right or wrong. That's intimidating.

So if I were E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post, I'd maybe have an intern or two do some fact checking before I hit send on a column.

Mr. Dionne is currently calling to repeal stand your ground law based on the George Zimmerman and the Michael Dunn case.

Small problem. SYG had nothing to do with either case.

So either Mr. Dionne is lazy or intellectually dishonest.

Or maybe both.