(How anyone could not appreciate the awesomeness of Matthew McConaughey in madman-warrior mode — enter Van Zan here, starting at 3 03 — is beyond me. McConaughey, his co-star Christian Bale and Smaug ought to have a contest to see who can spit the hottest fire).
In Madman, he gambols and guffaws and plays shamelessly to the rafters -- and that's just during the curtain calls.
"Where do we fit in between one madman armed with the ten commandments and a machete and another armed with U.N. resolutions?" one émigré asks.
Madmen in authority come in all forms, and the dignified men in suits are often no better than the rabble-rousers.
"Ignorance is a powerful tool if applied at the right time, even, usually, surpassing knowledge," he wrote with wry self-mockery in "Michigan Madman," a memoir he published in 1999.
"To be sane in a world of madmen is in itself a kind of madness".
The manga was licensed for an English language release in North America and the United Kingdom by Tokyopop, in Australia by Madman Entertainment, in Poland by Waneko and in Singapore by Chuang Yi.
The series is also distributed in New Zealand and Australia by Madman Entertainment, in Hungary by Mangattack, in Germany by Tokyopop Germany, in Finland by Pauna Media Group, and in Russia by Comix-art.
Paul Krugman, a columnist for the New York Times, wrote in his blog of the "utter folly" of "madmen in authority .In one sense, Mr Krugman's logic is reasonable.
