By now I suppose that most of you will have heard about the terrible events of last night, at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado.

There will be a lot of hand-wringing over this in the next few days, I am certain, so for right now, I’m keeping it simple: this was a ghastly tragedy, and the victims and their families are in my thoughts & have my deepest sympathies. Talking about the movie will wait for another time; right now I’m putting up this post as the blogging version of a moment of silence.