Staffers working for Ben Carson were also shocked by the fact that French people living in France speak French.
The notion that all doctors are good at science or empiricism is largely a myth. Most medical doctors are better described as craftsmen or engineers, rather than scientists. I have come across many very competent doctors who believe all manner of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo on the side. Ben Carson may know his way around the anatomy of a brain, but he still has to hire a plumber or an electrician to manage the anatomy of his house. He may know some stuff, but we shouldn’t assume that he’s any smarter than you or me…
Or you’d be sleeping for a really long time.
I’m shocked that people were shocked by his comments!
Trump took the test and he did “amazing - fabulous - maybe the highest score ever!”
Believe me, I don’t.
I have told this story before, but I will tell the super short version-
I knew an anesthesiologist who had his privileges suspended because he wouldn’t stop trying to sell Amway to the surgical teams during surgery.
It seems like the whole GOP’s sensibility has failed to evolve beyond the Bud Light commercial and the movie-gag fear of drunkenly grabbing the wrong set of junk.
Hilarious, and proof positive that if two-year-olds could effectively use guns we would all be dead.
I have 6 grandchildren, and I can say with anecdotal certainty that all toddlers are psychopaths.
I had lunch with a guy once that had paid a hit man to kill his wife precisely between noon and 1PM. Only reason I found out was through a news report when he was arrested. Turns out the hitman was an undercover cop.
Weirdest part, from my seat, was the cops never once interviewed me. I was his unwittng alibi, but they never came calling. WTF? I’ve always assumed it must be because they had him dead to rights without involving me. Still, weird.
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I’m just shocked at the number of people who are shocked at the words and actions of some people.
Maybe “shocked” actually means “mildly surprised they’d let their actual thoughts slip out”.
Anything said by any public relations/spokesperson for any organization should just be totally ignored. They are paid to bullshit. It’s their whole job.
Sociopaths- to be psychopaths they would need to display a predilection toward violence.
Once the police land on a narrative they like the investigation is functionally over, regardless of their claims; mitigating circumstances or facts.
That’s why if you ever commit a crime, be sure you have your patsy well establish beforehand. Once the police have a suspect they like (easy answers and not a lot of leg work) they stop, and everyone else is off the hook.
I think they make an exception for Caitlin Jenner. Or at least they used too, when she was a hard core conservative with money to donate.
In case anyone else didn’t remember:
They didn’t insult her to her face, but I think that was about it.
I remember it at the time when I was a teenager. What always struck me was that the full joke was never printed in my local paper nor on the national news programs.
I thought “wow must be real dirty if they can’t even print it”.
I think I finally got the whole gist of it later on from Rolling Stone.
I would say we are there already unless you consider gleefully hitting your sister in the head with a toy dump truck a non-violent solution.