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Activists grasp for another flamboyant mogul--Donald Trump, perhaps--to replace Ross Perot, while a bunch of delusional nuts promote their own candidacies for the party's presidential nomination.
The cover story explains why Jerusalem could be the tripwire for World War III and profiles the delusional extremists who could ignite it: Jewish fanatics who want to retake the Temple Mount by force, Christian apocalypse-awaiters who want to see the temple rebuilt, and seething sheiks who will wage war before ceding authority over the Dome of the Rock.
The Journal editorial "Bonfire of the Presidency" counters the suggestion coming from some quarters that Monica L. has an overactive imagination with the question, "Did a delusional 24-year-old make up the point about perjury not often being prosecuted in civil cases?"
As Saturday Night Live skits-turned-movies go, this one "makes The Blues Brothers look like Kurosawa" (Susan Wlosczyna, USA Today ). A three minute skit about two pathetically eager "delusional poseurs" (Tamara Ikenberg, the Baltimore Sun ) who'll do anything to get into the Roxbury nightclub, is now an hour and a half of the same, which wears thin by the end.
I find it absurd that he could ever have settled into life with his new family (especially a certifiably crazy mother) with no scars, growing into a happy, snub-nosed, uncomplicated adolescent instead of, say, the delusional momma's-boy assassin of Six Ways to Sunday --or, for that matter, a vaguely unstable wannabe movie critic.