interesting name
MOSCOW, Ida. Police stormed an Idaho church where a shooter hid after killing a police officer in a courthouse ambush, finding the body of the likely gunman and another man Sunday.
The shooting began late Saturday and also wounded a second officer and a civilian, said David Duke, Moscow’s assistant police chief.
David Duke?
That’s an unfortunate name.
I have two thoughts here. One: there aren’t a lot of people named Adolf these days, or for the last handful of generations. Two: Probably the nadir of Dukes who were named by the parents David are in high school right about now. I think he may have been in the public conciousness well enough that it’s not terribly common for David Dukes to exist about ten years hence-forth — any Dukes readying to name their child David might do a bit of research, happen to see David Duke on Donahue or something, and decide against it. But before that… the skys the limit: nothing wrong with naming your child David Duke. Like naming your child Edward Duke, or whatever.
The first non-Nazi named Adolf which google picks up is Adolf Frederick Johann Butenandt. On this list of famed Adolfs, the last one passed away in 1996. Hitler and Eichmann predominate, though not as completely as one would assume.
For some reason all the David Dukes that I pick up through google news are cops. Go figure! But, I guess, how else would you be reported into the news — which is at times simply a crime blotter? In 30 years, no police chief will be commenting on a tragedy with the name “David Duke”.