Exploring the links in Glenn Greenwald’s criticism of Elena Kagan, I was amused to find one lefty blogger assert about Kagan (in a post titled “Elena Kagan is unfit for the Supreme Court”): “And yes, she is one of those Kagans who have been wrong about everything in the war on terror, so I guess it runs in the family.”

That’s a fact that I figured that I would have known, if it were true. As it happens, the hyperlink in the quote takes the reader to a bio page on Robert Kagan, which does, indeed, reveal that he has a daughter named Elena.

The lefty blogger, however, ignores the complicating fact that the bio page states that Robert Kagan was born in September 1958, so he would have had to father the Elena Kagan who is the current Solicitor General before he turned one. (SG Elena Kagan was born on April 28, 1960, so she came into existence some time around July 1959.)