By focusing on (this) wondrous phenomenon ...the (state) forest department may delude itself into believing that these deaths are insignificantly low.

This will be just a fraction of the population killed every year as many carcasses are never washed ashore.

Our State Department is often wrong and timid.

We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.

The phenomenon of 'Transformers' itself is mind-shaking, you know?

There's a reason that students don't grade their own papers. There's a reason defendants don't sentence themselves. And there's the reason the State Department doesn't get to investigate itself, determine whether or not it made errors in Benghazi. That is Congress's job.