Realizing now that 232 probably includes the front matter. This remains one of the wildest things I’ve seen.

I couldn’t resist, so I sleuthed. This gets even more wild.

The books do have different content. But both were published on the exact same day. Both have the exact same number of pages

Here’s the mind bender: That number is 218. Neither has a page 232…

Just to be absolutely clear, I’m not sad (other than feeling empathy for his children, who are innocent).

I’m worried. There’s a hornets’ nest of the worst people buzzing now and they lack any sort of compunction.

He was not some nameless CEO of a greedy company, he was part of a movement whose members are hell bent on deploying fascist power to destroy those they hate and enslave those they view as inferior.

And now they’re galvanized.

Nothing good comes from this.

I’m not here to police anybody’s feelings, but it does make me a little worried to see people gleefully celebrating not death, but (apparently) targeted murder.

Charlie Kirk was a sophistic, cruel, vicious, man, but his star (and the garish light of his ilk) has been fading recently.