Name Phreaks 2: Mr. Askew

As I noted earlier this month, I love the idea of Name Phreaks, people whose names oddly describe them. Here's the latest, a rather macarbe one: the guy who went ballistic (literally) in NY City Hall yesterday, was named Othniel Askew. No question the guy was more than a little off.

And how sick of an irony is this? The guy he murdered, City Councilman James E. Davis, had made his reputation as a politician leading efforts to curb gun violence, and on the very day he was shot, he was planning to introduce to the City Council a resolution aimed to prevent violence in the workplace.