Thank you. Even the best teacher can't always get past the willful determination of a student who wishes not to learn.

It shames me to admit that I remember this, but DMLE (Department of Magical Law Enforcement, pronounced Dimly in fanon) has both Aurors and Hit Wizards in their force. Aurors investigate and detain, Hit Wizards kill the ones who won't come quietly. It's mentioned briefly in a bar conversation in Book the Third. I…

Sadly (or delightfully, depending on your point of view), some of the fanfiction — slash or not — out there is better than the original source material. That's one reason I hated "The Deathly Hallows." I'd read several imaginings of the 7th-year Horcrux hunt already, and a couple were far better, more imaginative, and…

I'm not sure that calling someone ugly is "evil" or even "hateful." Strike that. I'm very sure it's neither of those things. "Mean-spirited," I'll concede. I'm not perfect, after all.

Well, just as well that they didn't come back. Getting spit on must have sucked; it would have been far worse to have been beaten senseless (or worse).

I'm sorry that happened to you. Still, though, if I were a bystander, I would have thought, "Those kids must've known that guy was a bigot. Everyone involved is an asshole."

I'm glad you're a fan, and debates like this are what make history interesting. I disagree with you almost completely.

That's just not fair, Captain Muffin. Custer may have been a vicious, vainglorious, genocidal egomaniac, but are you really suggesting he would have turned out Phantom-Menace-bad? Be reasonable.

It'd be quite the thing, since muskets were invented several centuries later.

If we're using her looks to imply she's intersex, then I certainly want no part of that, because we shouldn't be shaming intersex people. However, I'm okay with saying that she's ugly, such that her inner ugliness (which is boundless) manifests upon her scowling visage. It's very Middle Ages and Richard III of me, I…

"Free-speech principals" are people who run schools and believe in free speech. Principal is also used in the sense of major or primary: "The principal cause of Calvin's bruises was Hobbes." Free-speech principles are beliefs about free speech. You did it twice, so I thought I'd point it out to you for future…

Just remember that in most countries, liberals are center-right people who like laissez-faire policies (economic liberalism). That's because those countries have real leftist parties, like democratic socialists.

I just cannot wait to revisit all of that for the 2016 campaign. Sigh. At least it will give the media something to talk about besides the 2020 campaign.

Tell your professor that someone who says that National Coming Out Day should be followed by National Disown Your Son day — and claims that being interested in the World Cup is a sign of the sissification and moral degeneracy of America — deserves no sympathy for any mocking she receives. I don't like being mean, but…

Hey, mind your stereotyping! I'm a cocksucker, and I loathe everything TMZ stands for.

In Kazakhstan, the whole country is run as a syndicate for the benefit of Nazarbayev.

It's TWO Olympians now? You lucky dog, you.

The IRA targeted Thatcher and Parliament a number of times, including with a car bomb and an improvised mortar.

I call myself British, but then again, I haven't lived in the country for many years, so I don't have the same ties to a specific part of the UK that many do. National identity has taken on more prominence over a British identity, too, as devolution and independence proposals carve Britain into more culturally…

And I thought they smelled bad on the outside.