Yesterday's Rantburg has a story about the IDF killing Sirhan Sirhan, the man or half-man who shot a mother and her two little boys in their bedrooms last fall. What I want to know is how he got his name. It could be a coincidence: as I recall, when Robert Kennedy was shot by Sirhan B. Sirhan, a respectable L.A. businessman named Sirhan M. Sirhan (I may have the initial wrong) found himself in a world of trouble until his friends and acquaintances found out that he was not the same Sirhan. So, was the late Mr. Sirhan using a pseudonym in honor of Kennedy's killer? Or was he born to a long line of Sirhans and given only his first name in honor of the killer? Or is it just a coincidence? The fact that there were two Sirhan Sirhans in L.A. thirty-five years ago suggests that the last is possible, but it seems unlikely. Just as any parents unfortunate enough to be named Hitler or Mussolini would not name their son Adolph or Benito today unless they were (a) neofascists or (b) very stupid or (c) incredibly tasteless, surely a bona fide Sirhan would follow the same policy?