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The Crazy Years Copyright © 1996-2004 Spider Robinson
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Robinson, Spider
The crazy years / Spider Robinson — BenBella Books ed.
p. cm
ISBN 1-932100-35-0
I. Title
PS3568.03156C73 2004
814'.54—dc22
2004018608
Interior design and composition by John Reinhardt Book Design
Cover design by Melody Cadungog
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This book is dedicated with thanks to my friend and colleague Shannon Rupp, who stopped me in
the middle of a rant one day and said, "Don't tell me—write it down and sell it to the Globe and Mail."

CONTENTS

Introduction
The Crazy Years: A Mission Statement

Information Overload
Braindrain Wave
Says Who?
The Mahooha Filter
A Tale of Two Charlies
And Now the News...

Substance Abuse
Bean Counting
Reflections of a Recovering Nicotinic
Mugging the Poor for Their Own Good
Big Nanny's New Clothes
Terminal Improvement
Where There's No Smoke
Imagination Has Its Downside
Science in Fishnet Stockings
Buzzed High Zonked Stoned Wasted
Flinging Phlegm at the Flim Flam in Flin Flon

O Canada
Citizen Keen