Harry uses the Resurrection Stone to get enough encouragement to sacrifice himself to Voldemort, The Stone probably knew better than to let Snape put in his two cents: "I'm sure you'll manage it, Potter. You'll likely piss yourself, of course … or worse. Last image anyone'll have of you. But that's not important."

With a Tim Capello cameo.

Your check from the Space Bankers is on its way.

I smurfed it one piece at a time…

Child-eating haters gonna hate child eating.

I think you'll find that language change is seldom utilitarian, and that it doesn't always leave the demotic speech more useful or precise than before—quite the contrary, sometimes. Some evolutions in language are worth applauding, and some worth deploring—or even worth ignoring as long as possible, among the…

Ye/you originally reflected a subject/object distinction, same as thee/thou, he/him, I/me, or she/her. For some reason, though, the difference became unstable (maybe because they sounded rather alike when unstressed?), and both pronouns started to get used interchangeably in all positions, with "you" eventually…

No. Appreciate it, but no thanks. It's "she/her" if the referent's sex is unambiguously female, "he/him/his" otherwise.

I can nearly guarantee you that I haven't … though even the ghost of Wm. Safire probably considers me mossbound in certain respects.

"Though, yes, they also eat children."

I'm with the clown-busting division of the Pinkertons. The job's pretty easy; we bust some heads, and then pack them all into the one tiny car we brought along.

Mm? Oh, yeah, totally.

I'll be sure to clear room in my schedule.

Cheers to you as well, and best wishes! I shall now retreat to recover from the quality burn (one day, God willing).

So now, "empirical science" can be applied to prudential foreign-policy judgments. Dear Lord. And I'm not really sure what you're trying to say near the end (though I could almost swear that beneath the crumbling syntax and malapropery, it's something disobliging).

[Morgan Freeman narrator voice] "He didn't."

Well, you can only "electrocute" a fellow in that sense once, so I assumed they must have misused the word before I read the story.

That's three paragraphs, and three determined, eyes-screwed-shut repudiations of whatever outside evidence could possibly suggest to you about your world and yourself. I honor your consistency, though it's a bit saddening in other respects.

First: of course it rebuts that particular argument. This isn't up for debate, and you're not helping yourself look a whit smarter or more serious (help that I'd advise you not to sneeze at, should it come your way). Also, Occam's Razor makes it silly, and elementary charity makes it knavish, to assume anything other…

In the show's (minor) defense … it's kind of credible if we don't take the character's views at face value, and don't just assume that the creators share them. It's entirely possible that Sara, as a character, has an unwarrantedly low opinion of herself, and a slightly inflated one of Laurel. Nothing's more human than…