When historians some years hence delve into the current culture in this country, they are either going to be rolling on the floor laughing at the absurdity of recent events or they will be shaking their heads wondering: “How did these people get to this point?” The “How did these people get to this point?” question will be raw meat for historians, who are assured of any number of examples of the apparent mass psychosis and resulting goofiness that seems to have afflicted so many Americans of late.