Several times over the course of the 15 years that I wrote a col for the NY Observer I pushed the idea that pundits should be licensed just as drivers are, that punditical violations (egregious predictions, gross hypocrisy, slimy backtracking and verminous sinking-ship abandonment) be subject to a penalty-points system that could result in short- or long-term suspension of media access. It was a serious idea lightly-framed, but because no one reads/takes NYO seriously it got nowhere. Reed's piece eloquently makes the case for just such regulation.