I was reading my local rag this [Tuesday] morning, when I came across a very small item buried somewhere between an ad for a for-profit college and a story about the acquittal of yet another police officer in the death of Freddie Gray. The three-paragraph article had the following headline: "Bastille Day attacker had interest in jihad."

I thought to myself: No sh*t, Sherlock!

The piece informs us that "Mohamed Lahouaiyej Bouhlel drank, ate pork, and had an 'unbridled sex life.'But his computer and phone showed online searches relating to IS and other jihadi groups."

Recall the initial reactions in the media to the Bastille Day horror, once the identity of the truck-terrorist was known and details about his life began to come out: there were plenty of doubts about his motives. After all, those who knew him said he wasn't at all religious: he was a "loner" who often exhibited the telltale signs of being somewhat sociopathic. He beat his ex-wife. He did un-Islamic things. He hooked up with men as well as women! How could he be a Muslim, never mind a devout one, let alone part of some jihadist group intent on establishing Sharia law?