“Ah ha!”

Jonah Goldberg writes at National Review,

Other than the actual murder and maiming, the thing I hate the most about mass murderers of all stripes -- be they psychopaths, jihadists, white supremacists, Luddites, gangsters, or a radical faction of “Up with People” -- is the mad rush by observers to yoke the slaughter to a political agenda.

I’m not excluding my own side, or myself, from this indictment. If you hung out on Twitter on Wednesday afternoon, you could feel the eagerness and frustration out there. Like my dogs working themselves up into a frenzy as I put on my shoes too slowly for their perambulatory needs, people strained against the chains of the news flow, yearning to get to the point where they could launch their “Ah ha!” attacks at the other side.

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