The Fauci diary debacle is far closer to Homeric as a tale of hubris than is Nolan’s Odyssey.

Just look at the scale of suffering caused by its author in contrast to the tawdry vanity it documents. - Harriett Lublin

Inside the longed-for giganticism is just laughable teeny-tinyism. 

In a Freudian version, the world’s smallest dick. 

• Evil must be understood properly: 

Its power derives solely from our own weaknesses. Apart from that it is pathetic.

• Imagine: He was patron to a potentially world-destroying technology but what concerned him most was how many likes he got.
• Remember him and AIDS: as head of NIAID, he presided over a lethally bureaucratic federal response to AIDS that rigidly barred dying patients from experimental treatments while deferring to pharmaceutical timelines...