Brilliance
I can't get over how brilliant Heather McDougal is, as evidenced in her [early] age of enlightenment blog. I'm totally blown away by her thoughts on evil and villains and illnesses (and it's not because she mentioned Neil in that entry):

"in an era where evil can be diminished to a diagnosable illness, how do you represent the time-honored role of the villain? How can storytellers supply that need for darkness, with which to showcase the Light? Aside from resorting to faceless villains, such as Sauron or the Tripods in War of the Worlds, who simply seem to represent Evil in a sort of blanket way. And setting aside the less-intellectually satisfying slasher movie/serial killer genre."

When I grow up, I want to be just like Heather.