flogged dead horse

I saw this headline in my news feed this morning and my heart skipped several beats. In a flash, millions of possibilities flashed through my mind of what I could do with my new-found powers… should I use them for good? Evil? Or to simply annoy the people I don’t like in my life like Matilda?

Then I clicked the link, read the full article, and realized it was Bill Kristol’s father, Irving Kristol, who had died at age 89 of cancer and I have no special powers.