Unfortunately for Romney, and perhaps for lots of other people, what he did has gotten crazy unpopular, because craziness is now in vogue.
Such craziness is crazy-making, which is why people want this election over and done with.
It's hugely important because when you start to see how crazy you are the craziness doesn't own you as much and so that was very clear to me because I was doing it in the right context.
When the argument is framed like this, don't be surprised if conservatives, having insisted that we not medicalize Major Hasan's crime by calling him crazy, start underscoring his craziness.
But the mass appeal of red-state sensationalism feels like a contemporary outgrowth, in that half the country really does believe that the other half is crazy, and while that craziness might not be good for the republic, it does make for great B-movie entertainment.
Which gives you a little insight into my craziness, because how crazy does one have to be to be referred to as "Crazy Boy" by OJ Simpson?
After the singer acknowledges her glorious craziness -- "Sure I'm Crazy" -- she closes with, "Crazy in Love Am I".
(That they are often the same people who pretend outrage at the loss of a single embryo only makes the craziness still crazier).
What's more, the spookily imperious way in which Milosevic persists in denying the reality of his situation may not simply be a ploy to drive others crazy; it may be evidence of craziness, tout court.
Maile Meloy "Brothers," by George Howe Colt, is part memoir, part exhaustively researched biography of famous brothers and how they drove each other, loved each other, fought, drove each other crazy, and supported each other through craziness.
