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Tantaros... that's the figure from Greek tragedy who can reach, but not quite touch, relevance. Amirite?

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Grifters are as grifters do.

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That is a very good analysis of our current condition.

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That was my thought when I saw a book supposedly "written" by one of the intellectually-challenged Duck Dynasty people. Who are their target audience?

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I miss her sneer.

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Grogy Pootan?

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Poor taste.

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You don't want to tie her up, and gag her, and lock her in the basement, feeding her diseased rats, tightening, and tightening the ropes until /...I'll have to stop there out of respect for the rules for commenting radicals.

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Just as she reached relevance, her wings burned up in the heat of the sun.

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U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Forrest. I'll bet she was a BIG fan of that book.

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Silly wabbit. Bondage is for *nice* people! And, besides, since Wonkette doesn't allow comments, you're in the clear :D

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>It is quite literally like all the right wing assholes are being discovered as the >disgusting antibiotic resistant organisms that they are, but "the base" still keeps >shovelling the shit into their cakeholes.

For them, the assholes' endless diarrhetic flow is manna from heaven! Open wide is their battle cry!

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"I apologize for those among us who are unfamiliar with the terms 'writing' and 'book.'"

Dear, this is Wonkette, not Breitbart or Red State.

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Thank you for the information. I had noticed Simon Baron Cohen's name in the research, but I thought it was just a coincidence that he had the same name as Sasha. I know FA about autism, but I do know something about schizophrenia, because my brother had it. He was thunderously smart, taking college level math when he was in grammar school, and he ended up with two engineering degrees. I often wondered if the qualities that made him so brilliant at math also made his brain put unrelated concepts together to form hallucinations. Maybe this kind of intelligence has a similar link with autism. Recently, behavioral geneticists have found around 100 SNPs on the genome that are linked to schizophrenia with a very small p value and maybe 60 (different) SNPs connected to autism. (And although many people on the spectrum probably have kids, not many schizophrenic people do). There's a missing heritability problem with both conditions. The fact that they are gender-based (or not) isn't a basis for torpedoing research; the scientists who look for a cure are not the same people as the evolutionary psychologists who get coin for riling people up. It's just slow going. People thought the Human Genome Project would lead to curing all known diseases, but it really pointed up how fantastically complicated the human genome is, and how there isn't an obvious genetic cause of most conditions because they are polygenic.

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Probably why the Nazis fear them. Because if that power weren't used responsibly, liberty and justice FOR ALL might happen!

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As good citizens, we should. Does this need its own thread?

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