Most shocking of all to readers was that La Santé was a "city within the city", with its own rules and a morality governed by violence and illogic.
The "desire to forestall social change," the Kentucky brief says, is "not a legitimate state interest".The petitioners' briefs do a creditable job of exposing the apparent illogic behind the states' bans on same-sex marriage.
The diversity of voices also captures something of the immediacy, terror and illogic of war, although the book is neither confusing nor chaotic.Three testimonials stand out.
I will also get into the candidates' language and rhetoric, the posters, the logic and illogic of platforms, and much else.
Now, to Israelis' great dismay, the illogic is being hammered home to them, not by Syrians and by Palestinians, but by an American-led international committee representing a wide consensus.The committee, chaired by George Mitchell, the former senator who has striven for peace in Northern Ireland, was set up last October to investigate the latest Israeli-Palestinian crisis.
In one of the concluding passages of his Green Book, a stream-of-consciousness promoted as a blueprint for his leadership, Mr Qaddafi, with a characteristic mix of bluntness and illogic, declared that his ideology was "theoretically" a genuine democracy, but in reality, "the strong always rule".
However, the children's book about a young girl's dream of following a rabbit down a hole only to encounter an absurd world in which illogic reigns and various creatures of all shapes, colors, and sizes reside has been attacked and banned throughout time for several different reasons.
For all of their U-turns and failures, Tspiras, Varoufakis, and their colleagues did succeed in highlighting the illogic of endless austerity policies, and they also succeeded in putting debt restructuring on the table.
When the mass media report suicide stories, they almost always provide a "reason," which seems to bring logic to the illogic of self-termination.
And the very madness of the bureaucratic illogic that DOMA creates might generate even more government interest in overturning it.
There is plenty to debate in Clinton's use of a private e-mail server and the potentially overlapping interests of the State Department and the Clinton Foundation without lapsing into that sort of illogic.
