The Hartford Courant is reporting on the word of unspecified sources apparently involved in the police investigation that the Sandy Hook school shooter was in fact motivated by a spirit of rivalry with other mass murderers. Where have I heard that idea, now confirmed as fact? Where did I hear it first? Oh, yes, I remember. In the hours after the shootings, this is the view of the matter that became affixed to the name " Morgan Freeman." It seems to have disappeared from discussion after Freeman himself disowned it . Let us at least learn a lesson here about the invalidity of discrediting any argument by virtue of where it does or doesn't come from.