What does a blogger with some pinko tendencies have in common with John Podhoretz? Quite bit, you would be surprised. There’s the neo-con daddies, University of Chicago, and a shared appreciation of ordinary lives. An excerpt from a column on John Lennon:
Most of the writing about John Lennon’s murder seems to center on what we, his cultural survivors, have lost — the music he might have written, the good works he might have done. But Chapman’s crime was not any more monstrous than if he had shot a guy standing on line at a newsstand to buy a pack of cigarettes.
What matters is not what we have lost, but what John Lennon lost — and what those closest to him lost.
Chapman’s evil act denied this 40-year-old man the right to see his son Sean grow to manhood, to see his son Julian develop into a successful musician, to go to art galleries with his wife Yoko and to revel in the continuing pleasure that his work gave successive generations.
He had already lived an extraordinary life. Chapman stole an ordinary life from John Lennon, and maybe that was the worst crime of all.
Apt. 11d 
This is lovely. And sad. Thank you for posting it.
p.s. Hi–I think I lurked by once or twice before, but have been reading regularly since the Linda Hirshman brouhaha. My favorite part of that has been finding new-to-me blogs, or rediscovering great ones I’d only glancingly noticed before.
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