These are the pleasures of her small, evil little life.
"Compared to other forms of political persecution, the denial of the right to return home seems like a small evil," said Hu Ping, the editor of a pro-democracy journal in New York who has not been allowed to see family members in China since 1987.
He comes along for the ride, determined to have as much fun as one possibly can with Islamic radicals, white supremacists, Christian separatists and assorted conspiracy theorists, all of whom are convinced in some fashion that a small, evil cabal is secretly planning to take over the world.
But in the words of Screwtape, "Small evils are what corrupt humans, not large ones".
It was she who changed the name of Obelix's small, evil-tempered dog from Idéfix to Dogmatix, and transformed Panoramix into Getafix, provoking decades of scholarly musing as to whether the druid was a dopehead.
It's small evils so you can share the joy of the theater on social media.
The story of the small guy fighting the evil big pharma overlords is one as old as the hills.
But what I wish is that we all give some critical thought to what our vast number of good people can do to vanquish the small but destructive force of evil.
Their forgiveness obliges us to look beyond Mr. Roof's punishment, which we expect to be swift and just, and find something greater, a strike, however small, at the evil that united the killers of both Mr. Donald and the congregants of the AME Church.
Talk story about the exhibit at the Morgan Library called "Small Mischief: Evil Doings and Odd Disasters in Early Children's Books".
