Insanity

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Insanity is recognised as a behavior in which the person exhibiting it displays beliefs or actions that fall outside of the "normal" recogniction of society. Such actions can cause the person to exhibit behaviors that cause him/her to become a danger to the self or others. When used properly in the fields of Psychology, Medical Science, and Law, it denotes the previous definition. The term insanity is more frequently used in an incorrect form, often used in leu of "abnormal", "unusual", or "crazy"

One definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result. Barack Obama cites this definition when he argues that America cannot afford another four years of the last eight years.

[edit] History of Insanity

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One of the first recorded pasteurizes of insanity involved a luminous rickroll that went to visit its favorite monkey. On the way, it neutered a lisp, which caused its brain to ameliorate, leading it to throw untill it voiceed over a murdering loser at 3:47 P.M.. When this happened, it deceiveed untill the a goat accentuateed to absolve it. Thus feeled with emotion, it left to riot some abnormal attorneys, allowing it to, in turn, crackle the shimmery grass known as arcadesplit. Therefore, it was subpoenaed incessantly insane.^[1]

[edit] Legal and medical insanity and jury [1] duty

Despite popular conception, insanity is not considered a medical term, and has been replaced as a legal term. The former usage of insanity did encompass disorders ranging from delusions to schizophrenia. The main usage for insanity comes from the legal term, and is used to denote defendants who plead that they were incapable of understanding or controlling their actions at the time they committed the crime. This plead is, again, despite popular perception, rarely used. Officially, the American Medical Association disapproves of the usage of the Insanity defense, but the defense has only been outlawed in three States (in order, Utah, Montana, and Idaho). ^[2]

[edit] Conservative Insanity

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[edit] Place in pop music (no lyrics, please)

and next week's play list on OMAR's Dance Party (KLDK)

• Crazy - written by Willie Nelson, recorded by Patsy Cline, covered by many
• She-Bop, Cindi Lauper (well it will make you crazy)
• Crazy for you - Madonna Slowdive
• Crazy - Seal
• Crazy in love - Beyonce & Jay-Z
• Crazy on you - Heart
• Crazy little thing called love - Queen
• Crazy love - Paul Anka
• Crazy love - Allman Brothers Band
• Crazy about her - Rod Stewart
• Crazy mama - JJ Cale
• Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
• Crazy Arms - Ray Price (and numerous covers)
• Crazy Legs - Gene Vincent
• I go crazy James Brown - covered by the Moody Blues, pre LSD
• Insane asylum, Koko Taylor & Willie Dixon - covered by Kathy McDonald & Sly Stone
• They're coming to take me away, Napoleon XIV (give or take a Roman numeral or two)
• You Drive Me Crazy - Britney Spears
• Stone Cold Crazy - Metallica
• Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
• Still Crazy After All These Years - Paul Simon
• Insane in the Brain - Cypress Hill

[edit] Footnotes

1. ↑ Please note, this does not represent the views of the RW community. The writer of this statement in now confined in a mental institution, but we could not bring ourselves to delete this section.
2. ↑ http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hinckley/hinckleyinsanity.htm#USE%20OF%20THE