A bit more cut and paste for you LH : )

"Geez, I'm glad I don't really take all this stuff that seriously or I'd be under a real strain waiting to see how it turns out."

Nothing like the rough and tumble of a bit of robust debate! Good for the constitution.

"pitying assault on their many personal failures and character flaws"

I'm an Aston Villa fan - does that count?

"Let me know if Teribus ever succeeded in utterly crushing and destroying the egos of any of his various political opponents"

If he did crush us then who would he have to direct his ire at?