https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2008/05/11/more-lunacy-from-thetimes-or-why-an-islamic-supremacist-is-not-like-bill-cosby/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 08:51:33 -0400<![CDATA[Earlier today, I reported on The New York Times&#8216;s cheerful story about &#8220;mad pride,&#8221; the effort by various lunatics (I use the term in the way Mr. Blotton used &#8220;humbug,&#8221; in its Pickwickian sense) to reverse the unfair stigmatizing of insanity by &#8220;embracing their madness,&#8221; so to speak. Just as certain homosexuals now proudly employ the word &#8220;queer&#8221;&#8211;once a term of disapprobation&#8211;to describe themselves, so some of the hallucinatorily-inclined want to dust off and revel in (not to say &#8220;rave about&#8221;) words like &#8220;mad.&#8221;]]>Sun, 11 May 2008 06:47:13 -0400<![CDATA[Roger Kimball]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-kimball/2008/05/11/more-lunacy-from-thetimes-or-why-an-islamic-supremacist-is-not-like-bill-cosby-n114810