Mr. Barnett's sane idea: bring the world's rowdy, hormonal, emotionally tortured teenage countries to the adult table, and teach them to prosper through capitalism, cooperation and openness.
If Loughner had gone to the Safeway carrying a regular pistol, the kind most Americans think of when they think of the right to bear arms, Giffords would probably still have been shot and we would still be having that conversation about whether it was a sane idea to put her Congressional district in the cross hairs of a rifle on the Internet.
In a non-addicted universe, could any rational human being believe that this is a sane idea?
Groups such as the National Juvenile Justice Network, the National Center for Victims of Crime and the National Assn. of Attorneys General have called for raising the disbursement cap, and that is a sane idea.
The simpler, saner idea that things were good and now they're bad, and that they could get either better or worse, depending on what happens next, gets dismissed as intellectually disreputable.
Crazy or sane, the ideas of the neo-eugenicists take centre-stage in Inferno.
Author's Note: In keeping with the "going sane" theme, I will continue to expand this idea on a weekly basis through and beyond election day.
As somebody who heavily relies on Trello's Chrome-based plugin for Gmail to stay semi-sane, the idea of a native integration with Gmail definitely sounds like it'll make life easier — especially because of this mobile integration.
Even now they seem wonderfully sane and pertinent ideas for how we should – but often don't – live: "On estates," advised Neurath, "mix up individuals: married and unmarried, old and young.
As the opposition to the Fixed Period grows, he actually begins "to ask myself whether I was in all respects sane in entertaining the ideas which filled my mind", but steadies his resolution by remembering the example of great men such as Galileo and Columbus, whose radical ideas were mocked and rejected in their own time.
