Rangers fans succeeded, but they are by and large an insane bunch, who were willing to boycott and rally en masse and smash up the club's offices, fans who are regarded as maniacs even in a country where supporters will boycott an away match because the team they'd have to visit lost a game against Celtic 30 years ago.
A question for the ages, I'm sure, but perhaps a remark made in 1860 by James Petigru, a congressman from the state, sheds some light: "South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum".
Since Mr Gingrich likes to say that he is a historian, he will remember that when South Carolina voted to secede, a unionist from Charleston observed that the state was "too small for a republic, and too large for an insane asylum".
"Hearing the news that Liseberg would receive a larger, even more insane looking version of that coaster, it's high on our must ride list for 2014".
How far do you think we've come in our treatment of mental illness and addiction since the large asylums for the insane were shut down?
An anonymous emailer sent him a link to a public Pastebin file containing 26 large archives, yielding an "insane" amount of information, said Roose.
Petigru opposed withdrawing from the United States back then because, as it is often quoted, "South Carolina is too small to be a Republic, and too large to be an insane asylum".
All presidents, if they want to mess with our Cuba relations at even the microscopic level, find themselves up against the Florida community, and those are large, powerful and arguably insane forces.
Reader's Digest was long run with the sort of erratic beneficence that drives bean counters insane, in large part because the Wallaces always thought of their business as a kind of educational foundation that happened to be spectacularly lucrative.
So it's worth keeping an eye on a project in Buffalo: Henry Hobson Richardson's former Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane, the largest commission of that important 19th century American architect's career.
