Never fear. Last week, Bill Ayers wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times about his time with the Weather Underground. And in it, the University of Illinois, Chicago education prof reiterates claims that he wasn’t a close associate of President-elect Obama’s.

This morning, the post’s Charles Lane has a response, focusing on Ayers’ unwillingness to say in the editorial that the Weather Underground’s activities were politically unproductive—not to mention dangerous.