The Sanity Squad: This week our resident therapists take on the world from the latest always dubious poll on American’s feelings about the war in Iraq and President Bush to the oft-predicted but never quite realized End of the World. En route the stop of in the land of Personal Responsibility involving the case of “mass murderer Kim Hyon Hui, a woman now in her 40s who as a young girl in 1987 helped kill 115 people aboard KAL Flight 858.” Following that they take a look at the twisted childhood of Gunter Grass of the Nobel Prize and Waffen SS, and then journey on into the dueling value systems of free vs. repressive regimes. And, I’m sorry, our half-hour is up now.

Our gang of mental health pros is: Host Neo-neocon. Panelists: Dr. Sanity, Shrinkwrapped, and Siggy

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We talk to Nina Planck, author of Real Food: What to Eat and Why. and Rod Dreher, author of Crunchy Cons: How Birkenstocked Burkeans, gun-loving organic gardeners, evangelical free-range farmers, hip homeschooling mamas, right-wing nature lovers, and their diverse tribe of countercultural conservatives plan to save America (or at least the Republican Party). There’s a surprising degree of overlap, and we learn about how the Internet is revolutionizing small farming and how foodie impulses and back-to-the-land sentiments defy traditional political categories. Plus, the dangers of vegetarianism and the benefits of beef and butter.

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