Tag: Madness

  • The Dalai Lama, Reefer Madness, kaiju, and more!

    The Dalai Lama, Reefer Madness, kaiju, and more!

    What does his Holiness the Dalai Lama have to do with moral panics over “marihuana,” a backwoodsman becoming an unlikely political hero, noir skulduggery in wartime San Francisco, Ronald Reagan, a resurrected Egyptian mummy, and a giant reptile terrorizing Japan? Quite a lot, as it turns out. Several years ago, someone told me about a…