Re: [Peace-discuss] Why America’s gone nuts

[John W.]

On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 3:54 PM, <rlangenh at illinois.edu> wrote:

Please define "nuts."  Ralph Langenheim
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To humor you, Ralph, and without resort to a dictionary:

Insane; crazy; doing the same thing over and over and expecting different
results; ignoring all the lessons of history.

Of course it always depends on the perspective.  But in general, fiddling
while Rome burns is nuts, even if you really, really like to fiddle and
you're really, really good at it.
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