Distinguishing.

This is what distinguishes a scholar from a hack: the willingness to analyze a question dispassionately and tell the truth even when it is politically inconvenient.

That's law professor, and former judge, Michael McConnell, excerpted over on the Volokh legal blog.

Some people just like to play both sides work both sides of the street, though. Including prominent law professor bloggers, it seems...

You know, the ones that change their minds when it becomes politically convenient, and earns them more eyeballs than their original ill-thought-out stances.