…and how psychopathology may save the nation from putting a crazy person in the White House.

[And we’re back! It’s been an event-filled four month absence and I’ve had plenty to say–just been too lazy to say it in writing. So with 100 days or so to go, we lightly tiptoe back into the ring.]

There is an almost audible sigh of relief exhaling from the sane portion of the U.S. electorate this week, as poll after post-DNC-convention poll shows Hillary Clinton opening an increasingly wide gap over the Republican nominee, clown of renown Donald Trump. What is developing into a heady optimism from Democrats certainly seems justified. After all, their candidate is currently running stronger in the horse race–margin-wise–than Obama did at the same point in both 2008 and 2012. And given Trump’s joyride on the Crazytown bus the last 10 days, over which the GOP has purportedly reached a “new level of panic,” one might well ask: “How could this ever become a close race?” Well, let’s take a look.Read More »