Or is this an illustration of that housing law that leads to the gibbering madness?

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Entirely thrown away all rational thought and now crouches gibbering in the corner of the madhouse.

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Time with a gibbering amateur compared with a session with a trained professional?

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Of course, the fastest way to gibbering madness known to mankind is contemplation of the housing laws in New York City.

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Set a can of peas on the floor of just about any bedroom and it would roll slowly in the direction of the gibbering Atlantic.

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The only problem with the argument is that it is entirely gibbering nonsense, unhealthy behaviours reduce costs to health care systems: if we are to accept the initial logic then we should subsidise them, not tax them.

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And we hit the notorious bars in the sky: Vertigo, atop the Banyan Tree (banyantree.com), which has D gibbering with health-and-safety-induced anxiety and requires us to neck two vast martinis each to facilitate the walk down the vertiginous steps clinging to the side of the building.

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My worry is that some future Friedman, some monetary scholar of the future, will write in her history of these times that it was this, this one action, this one moment, that was the gibbering insanity that crashed the system for a decade or more.

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