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We live in an age where the febrile cult of celebrity has become so possessive of its icons that we demand not just their images, but the contents of their minds. As such, it has become normal and acceptable for journalists and pundits to speculate wildly in print about the mental health of famous people without a shred of clinical experience or meaningful knowledge of the subject in question, as I've noted twice before.

The world's newest celebrity is Jared Lee Loughner (as...