Monday, August 18, 2025

YES. ABSOLUTELY: Bring back long-term institutionalized mental healthcare. I'm reminded of a long-ago 'crazy' joke:
Driving down the road next to a fence around the state mental hospital, his car had a tire blow out. Pulling over to the side of the road along the fence, the driver stopped, got out of his car, opened the trunk and began pulling out the jack and spare tire.

As he was changing the tire, a man walked over from the institution to the fence and stood by, watching silently. After mounting the new tire, the driver of the car reached for the lug nuts, not finding them. After a fruitless search, the man behind the fence finally spoke up: "Why don't you take one lug nut off the other three tires and use them? Then you can drive to the nearest gas station and get the missing ones replaced."

The driver thought about it for a second, then said "That's a great idea. Thank you." He paused for a second and then asked "Do you mind telling my why you're on that side of the fence and not this side?"

The man behind the fence replied "Mister, I'm crazy, not stupid."
I would suggest that perhaps we should add long-term institutionalized stupid care, but then we already have Congress....

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