Wonko the Sane was right

In So Long and Thanks For All the Fish, Arthur Dent runs into a guy (Wonko the Sane) who decides the world is insane and needs to be put into an Asylum. Wonko's Asylum encloses the rest of the world and exits onto a beach. I am beginning to think that Douglas Adams was the most psychic man alive, as we need an Asylum right now.

Wonko was set off by the instructions on a package of toothpicks. For me, it's two stories:

• The NATO forces in Afghanistan were providing aid to a vigilante who was running his own investigations into "terrorists."
  
• The Pentagon has videotape of US soldiers in Abu Gahrib raping young boys.

Every time I think that we can't fuck up the world anymore than we already have, there's stuff like this.