By the way, if I ever use the construction The X is just that, a X, slap me.
I found an unintentionally funny bit:
Do you remember the old adage about how power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely? Karl Marx didn’t.
Acton wrote that famous line four years after Marx died. – I always wondered what “corrupts absolutely” is supposed to mean.
The movie of Watchmen apparently changes Ozymandias’s costume from gold to greys. Whose stupid idea was that?