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POPSFive Reasons Insanity Is the New Normal In America Since Barack Obama has been elected, gun sales and copies of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged have flown off the shelves. Meanwhile, there's a Russian academic all over the news predicting that America will soon collapse, "tea parties" springing up all over the country, and the stock market has been doing a great impression of Michael Richards' career since he left Seinfeld. Is that because people have gone crazy? No, it's the reaction of sane people to the crazy as a football bat insanity that has begun to pass for conventional wisdom in large swathes of America. Living in this country today is like sitting in the back seat of a car that's hurtling towards the edge of a cliff at a hundred miles an hour while the driver fiddles with the radio and the guy in the passenger seat mocks the very idea of using brakes.
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POPSThe problem of evil "I have other issues with the label "evil", especially as it has come to be used in our largely secular society. It is often used in a dynamic way, as in "the Devil has the best tunes", so that it becomes something aggressive and almost seductive." Interesting account on the usage of (in this case) evil, and the lack of depth due to the common use of it.
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POPSEinstein, insanity and the war on drugs We have wasted countless billions of dollars trying to enforce a failed policy. We should have learned from the dismal and costly failure of prohibition that the government cannot and should not dictate what people do to themselves. Legalize drugs and regulate them just as alcohol and tobacco.is now regulated. Education is a much more sane and humane method of countering substance abuse than prison and murder on the streets. Illegal drug traffiking is supporting criminal gangs, Taliban and al Qaeda. Where is the sanity in this? Our health is more threatened by processed foods than what marijuana does to us. People will always need their occassional 'escape from reality' or a little something to 'take the edge off'. Wars should not be funded, prisons should not be filled and people should not die to support a demand that clearly will not be controlled.
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