How manly is your favorite restaurant?  Asylum just announced that the Hilltop Inn of Evansville, Indiana, has been named Manliest Restaurant in America for 2009.  The winner was named after a total of 46,874 votes were cast. With all the steakhouses out there, what was the dish that put the Hilltop Inn at the top of the list?
Apparently, it’s their Jumbo Brain Sandwich…
Asylum Editor-in-chief Neil Gladstone put it this way: “Asylum.com is thrilled to celebrate Hilltop Inn’s victory as Manliest Restaurant in America. No doubt we must pause and acknowledge the fried brain sandwich’s part in this triumph. There’s definitely …read more

According to The Charleston Gazette article Groups protest ‘lunatic asylum’ name, a pre-Civil War mental hospital in Weston, West Virginia has – after undergoing several name changes spanning the 19th and 20th centuries including “West Virginia Hospital for the Insane,” “Weston State Hospital,” and then simply “Weston Hospital” – gone back to using its maiden name of “Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum.”
Unsurprisingly, many mental health groups in West Virginia are outraged. Folks from the Mountain State Direct Action Center, the West Virginia Mental Health Consumers Association, the West Virginia Mental Health Planning Council, and the West Virginia Americans with Disabilities Act Coalition …read more