The Post’s Courtland Milloy—he of “myopic little twits” fame—likes driving fast, and he doesn’t like the city’s speed cameras. He writes in a column published today:

I confess: I enjoy driving fast.

Not reckless driving, just cruising at speeds more appropriate for road conditions than the posted speed limit sometimes permits. Pop the top on the old Solara, fire up the CD player and hit the open road. A new Mercedes ad calls it “feeling alive,” although the sensation can be just as good in any well-kept automobile.

Lately, though, some jurisdictions have ramped up efforts to kill that feeling — to actually steal the joy of driving altogether — by “getting people out of their cars,” as D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray (D) likes to say. And through the use of hyper-vigilant parking enforcement along with an explosion of red light and speed cameras, he’s drawn a hard line in the sand.

Milloy is irate with D.C.’s expanding network of traffic cameras and the hefty fines they dole out, which he calls “highway robbery.” Of course, Milloy isn’t alone in this: plenty of people have said they don’t like the speed cameras, and that they’d like to see fines lowered. (A D.C. Council task force is debating that very point.)

Still, it goes without saying that Milloy does his own argument a disservice on a number of points. First off, he’s a Maryland resident—and they’re responsible for 50 percent of traffic cameras tickets handed out in D.C., according to MPD. Second, we sympathize with the thrilling feeling of driving fast, but we’re certainly not inclined to expect the city to tailor its laws to what we think feels good—especially when that awesome rush is enabled by two tons of steel. Third, Milloy seems to forget that even speed cameras give drivers a 10 mile-an-hour cushion, so when Milloy thinks he’s driving at “speeds more appropriate for road conditions than the posted speed limit sometimes permits,” he’s probably driving way too fast.

None of this is to say that changes shouldn’t be made to the city’s automated traffic enforcement program, of course. Speed limits have to be set to what a road can handle, and cameras should be used to promote safety, not pad city coffers. Given how widespread they are becoming in the city, there’s certainly an argument to be made for decreasing some of the fines.

But Milloy errs in assuming that driving quickly is an inherent right, and that everyone who does it is only out for an innocent Sunday drive with the kids. Additionally, he fails to mention that speed camera fines are set at the same level as the fines a cop can hand out—and that cop will throw some points on your license if he catches you speeding along a little too liberally.

Kinda myopic, huh?