[…] you—the huddled masses, the prols, the readers (who at this moment in history appear to be a dying breed)—to step from the shadows and affirm your readerdom, claiming it from the blight of infotainment and the cult of celebrity-worship TV!

I video conferenced with the client this morning.

To rationalize their self-validating procedure, they even misinvoke Thomas Kuhn's notion of "normal science,” apparently unaware that a like misinvocation could even legitimate exorcism and other forms of sheer quackery.

What have you been treating Maureen for? Aphenphosmphobia. She is...she was scared of having her throat touched.