Austere religious scholar O.J. Simpson, as the Washington Post, might have put it, has gone to whatever hell awaits evil men. Some are disappointed that he went there at a ripe old age.

Why evil thrives and good people suffer is an age-old question and not one that we are about to resolve here.

But I will say that O.J. Simpson lived out his worst punishment already. O.J. was an egomaniacal narcissist obsessed with keeping the public’s attention. His brutal murders tanked his career but made him even more incredibly famous.

And like most people who were super famous in the nineties, he lived long enough to become irrelevant. A trivia moment on game shows. That guy who was involved in that car chase and whose glove didn’t fit, instead of a football star.

In his waning years, O.J. Simpson tried to join Twitter and become active on social media and, in the worst possible insult, was mostly ignored, a sideshow like John Hinkley singing on YouTube.

O.J. Simpson lived long enough for no one to give a damn about him.