stop the madness! (cnn round-up)

people. listen. just as we should be unsurprised that overachievers who want to go to space are kind of nutty; just as we should be unsurprised that a prominent politician who has been hell-bent on making violent repression of sexuality the rule of law likes to take it in the pooper himself every once in a while; so too should we be unsurprised that kooky face-painted artist-types set fire to something that was built to be set fire to, in the company of other kooky face-painted artist-types.