Ms. Pelosi has no patience for such “noise,” even when she is the center of it. Republicans have made her a favorite liberal bogywoman for the better part of a decade, never more so than now. She is cast as an “extreme liberal” and “ruthless partisan,” out of step with the mainstream.

On the whole, the evening was not very exciting and, apart from grandsonly fulminations and the resonant reading by Wollschläger, it consisted mainly of a string of reminiscences.

Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).

There's some major design flaws as well. Scaling for one is a pitta. Never liked it myself on any MMORPG, it's cheap, tacky, destroys tension and for me inserts a huge wad of loss of realism, oh, yes, those wasps I destroyed at level one in two seconds can now fight my uber level 200 with the 'Archcommanders Sword of Cheese Shoes' for ten minutes now! Go figure.