No one could imagine the insanity of no estate tax in 2010, or of a return to 2001 rates and exemptions in 2011, undoing all of the reductions that occurred between 2002 and 2009.
Nearly eight months later, the defense has dropped hints about Holmes' mental state but has given no clear statement on whether he would plead insanity.
Facebook's decision to pay so much money for a firm that has, as it happens, no revenue whatsoever smacks to many of the insanity that fuelled the last tech bubble.
As many more come to depend on the hundreds of federal programs polite people no longer call the dole, it will only get increasingly harder to escape the economic insanity that now prevails as common wisdom.