Thanks for making me breakfast in bed, you little angel.

An arrogant dictatorial super-villain possesses a weapon of mass destruction while the morally righteous Federation makes a successful preemptive strike — Nemesis almost seemed designed to encourage the nation's Iraqnophobia and justify its war.

Every phenomenon must be, at any rate, partly subjective or dependent on the subject.

Just as difficult a question as whether nature is at an end, and culture a confusing and relentless mess of distracting uninformation, is whether rituals of any kind can be reinvested with significance and genuine function.