House of Mirrors

Sometime way back, it seems to me that I heard an explanation of the difference between psychosis and neurosis -- Neurotics blame every problem that arises on themselves, while psychotics blame all of their problems on everyone except themselves.

I think we know which brand of nutjob certain Persons of Heads of Rag are, but it's always pleasant to have a diagnosis so compellingly confirmed. Why, exactly, is it that they hate the Joos? What drives their self-destructive behavior?

It’s because we always lose to Israel. It gnaws at the people in the Middle East that such a small country as Israel, with only about 7 million inhabitants, can defeat the Arab nation with its 350 million. That hurts our collective ego.

Hm. As Denis Leary likes to say: "Life is hard. Get a helmet."

h/t the inimitable Tim Blair