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In Paris, the conservative Le Figaro repeated the usual French view that Flytrap is a symptom of demented American puritanism.
. . The one bright spot of the night: At 8 PM, TNT starts its 24-hour marathon of A Christmas Story . This movie captures what being a kid during the holidays is about: demented Santas, bickering parents, and the endless agonizing over whether you'll receive the year's hot toy.
He concluded, "So the man caught red-handed in perjury, obstruction of justice and ungallantly smearing his lover as a demented stalker is hailed as the winner.
For the same reasons, leprosy is now called Hansen's disease , and mongolism has become Down syndrome ; people who were once called crazy, mad, lunatic, demented, etc., are now categorized as sick . All this name changing is mere logomancy which neither changes the fact that there is something wrong with the afflicted nor, in the long run, our attitudes towards them.
Rather than dismiss the shooter as a cold-blooded killer, Bush called him a "sick person" who must be "demented."