Posted by
DJR on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 12:00:00 AM
I am sure that by now most of you have heard about or seen self-proclaimed neuropsychologist Janeane Garofalo’s comments about tea party participants. If not, take a look here.
Apparently, we tea-party types have oversized "limbic brains" (otherwise known as the limbic system and responsible for our emotions) that are too firmly packed into our skulls. This cranial crowding causes pressure to the forebrain and results in our rather moronic behavior, according to Ms. Garofalo.
Perhaps her argument also can explain why many of us, while angrily watching the likes of Ms. Garofalo and Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, experience an increasing sense that someday soon our heads may actually explode. Pass the duct tape, please, I feel my emotional limbic brain expanding even as I write.
Now, unlike us tea-party-ers, I am certain Ms. Garofalo has an abundance of what she calls “head space” (no doubt a neurological term she picked up during her undergraduate studies in . . . um . . . history) in which to house her diminutive limbic brain.
In fact, I believe, based on my completely objective observations of Ms. Garofalo, that her head provides so much empty space, her brain, scant limbic and all, must be continually bouncing back and forth in her skull, as if engaged in a perpetual game of Pong. And tragically resulting in what has been termed (by me) as Limbic-Lacking-Lefties' Inescapable Brain Bonk Syndrome.
L.L.L.I.B.B.S. is a devastating, generally untreatable form of mental disorder characterized by a bizarre demeanor, delusions of intellectuality and just plain wrong-headed thinking. Symptomology may include but is certainly not limited to: a strange and repugnant physical appearance; repeated, unexplained references to Bernie Goldberg; ; vulgar humor; crude manners; associations with known derelicts and liars on MSNBC; and nonsensical vocalizations, e.g. the following from Ms. Garofalo:
“When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.'“
“I say at this point, for different reasons, Bush and Hussein are both very threatening to world peace and to deny that is to be incredibly naive.”
“When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.“
So very sad, isn’t it? So please extend the same compassion and understanding to Ms. Garofalo and her disorder that she has shown to us and ours.
And as you find yourself buying more and more duct tape in an effort to contain your volatile limbic brain, just be thankful that at least you are immune to L.L.L.I.B.B.S.