Trump on Muller's death: "I'm glad he's dead". De mortuis nihil nisi bene. Decent humans never speak ill of the dead. But we know that, aside from his inability to grasp war, Trump is not a decent human being.

2/ I waited 10 years before venting on Susan Sontag. I may have made a sly remark here and there about a recently passed person, but regretted immediately.