Today's Washington Post features another installment of “Topic A,” the “occasional feature in which The Post asks for first impressions on a hot topic.” Today's “hot topic” is “Sotomayor's First Term,” and The Post published “first impressions” from four conservatives and three liberals. (And of the four conservatives, only one was given a bio line that made his leanings clear, while only one of the liberals was ambiguous.)

Four conservatives to three liberals actually isn't that bad, considering The Post's recent track record. The paper doesn't make it easy to find archived “Topic A” features, so I may be missing one, but by my count the last three installments have featured a total of 14 conservatives and 8 liberals.

This, of course, is more proof that The Post needs to pay more attention to conservatives.