Of all the people to reveal the truth behind a suspicion I had, I would have never guessed that liberal professor and attorney, Susan Estrich, would be the one.

If you haven't heard of the Kozinski issue, read here and here.

As I noted, something smelled funny about the whole issue, not the least of which was the LA Times' involvement in the story.  Here is an important piece of information from Estrich's column on the stir:

"But what has come out since is more troubling than the original accusations. Not only did the Los Angeles Times make a mountain out of a molehill, wrongly characterizing a popular and much-viewed piece of bathroom humor (literally) as bestiality, but it failed to reveal that the source of the story was an angry litigant, and that he had made them aware of it months earlier. Consider the source, my mother always used to say, and she didn’t run a newspaper. This week, Judge Kozinski’s wife of thirty years wrote an email to a popular local blogger, Patterico.com, defending her husband and, in the course of her defense, calling into question the fairness of the Los Angeles Times."

Read Estrich's column here and more good coverage here.