Normal is harder to find every day.

There is a great deal of mental illness in the U.S.. One sees people losing their minds over the removal of people who have illegally entered the United States. A few died when attacking legal officers of the government whose job is to remove people who are in the country against the duly-passed laws of the same. Entire cities and states threaten not to let ICE do its work because it likes illegal aliens. Is it any surprise that such places also have high levels of other crimes, when the laws are like desert, you can have it or just take a pass?

It’s getting harder to know what “normal” is in the United States and Western Europe. And while any system has its definitions of normal behavior, there seems to be a shift towards lunacy by much of the public. It’s always a tricky thing to compare behaviors. For Jews, even not very religious ones, there is Yom Kippur once a year and most Jews fast. So fasting at least one day a year is quite a normal thing for Jews. For someone who has no reason or interest in fasting, refraining from food for even just one day seems like some type of extreme behavior. So how do we know what is normal? And without that definition, how can we say, in the words of Igor in Young Frankenstein, what is “Abby-Normal”?

Let’s first take a look at some behavior that for most normative people would be considered nuts.

1. A young mother murdered her children by strangling them with athletic bands. The event itself would seem tragic. Three lives snuffed out by their very mother, the one who brought them into this world. Yet, here we are at the time of her trial and several hundred (mostly) women show up near the courthouse to show their support for the murderer. Their argument would apparently be that Lindsay Clancy was not responsible for her actions. The accused has pleaded insanity due to post-partum psychosis. The court........

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