Four unusual neurological syndromes

The Brain, Mind, and Language site has a page with short descriptions of four different rare neurological syndromes.


People with "Kluver-Bucy Syndrome" try to put anything they can get their hands on into their mouths and will "typically attempt to have sexual intercourse with it."

People with "Capgras' Syndrome" think everyone around them is an impostor. They feel like they are living in a real life version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

People with "Cotard's Syndrome" believe they are dead -- walking corpses. "The French physician Charles Bonnet described a lady who insisted of dressing in a death shroud and being put in a coffin. She demanded to be buried and when refused, remained in her coffin until she died several weeks later."

People with "Fregoli Syndrome" see everyone around them as the same person. It must be like seeing the Oompa Loompas in Burton's Willy Wonka Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which were all played by the same actor.

The 10 people who are fucking up America

A list of the top 10 people who are not only fucking up America, but dismembering, traumatizing and drinking the blood of your children:
1) Dick Cheney
2) Donald Rumsfeld
3) George Bush
4) Tom Delay
5) Bill Frist
6) Antony Scalia
7) Thomas Sowell
8) Bill O'Riley
9) Michael Bay
10) Sean Hannity

Dream- July 2nd 2005

I dreampt I was resting on a cot with a girl under a blanket in a sort of corner shop. THree tough guys came up and one gives us each some money, saying it is like a loan. I tell him to put the money between my toes. He does so and says that we are in with his gang now and we are taking over the area. They leave. After cuddling with the girl for awhile I get up and go down the street where I see one of the henchmen sitting at a card table on the sidewalk like he was collecting signatures for a petition. I casually dropped all the money on the table and told him to tell the boss that the deal was off and I was leaving town anyway. He says that won't do, but I just walk away. A few blocks later he comes up behind me and grabs me by the neck, and, choking me, he says, "You're either in or you're dead!." I realize it is time to go ape-shit, so I stick my thumbs in his eyes, then clamp onto his ear, ripping it off in my teeth, He recoils and I spit his ear out at him, then lunge at him and bite him in the throat. He wants nothing to do with me. Cradleing his head with both hands, trying to staunch the blood flowing from his ear and neck, he steps away with a panicked look on his face. Just then another thug comes at me, pointing a shotgun at me. I grab the barrel of the gun and aim it at the wounded man. I pulled on the gun and it went off - shooting the guy in the leg. The gunman lets go in horror and I grab the gun and without pause, blast the gunman's arm off.

The dream continued but the preceeding was writen as soon as I woke up, in the dark, in pencil. My later notes refer to an on-going battle with the gang, although with bow and arrow and no fatalities on either side. As soon as I managed to wound my enemies they would be on my side. Eventually they were all vanquished and I returned to where we had been sleeping to see that the door (that had been the entrance to the gang's lair) was gone. Then I and the girl and the remaining allies ( ex badguys) realized the boss was the devil.

Quotes

The more laws and restrictions there are,
The poorer people become.
The sharper men’s weapons,
The more trouble in the land.
The more ingenious and clever men are,
The more strange things happen.
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers.
-Lao Tsu

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth we cannot bear rather than rest content with the fictions that we manufacture out of each other.
-Lawrence Durrell

Onward!

"A momentous hour has struck for our country. Envious rivals everywhere force us to legitimate defense. The sword has been forced into our hands. I hope that in the event that my efforts to the very last moment do not succeed in bringing our opponents to reason and in preserving peace, we may use the sword, with the help of God, so that we may sheathe it again with honor. War will demand enormous sacrifices by our people, but we shall show the enemy what it means to attack us. And so I commend you to God. Go forth into the churches, kneel down before God, and implore his help for our brave army.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the expression of your loyalty and your esteem. When it comes to war, all parties cease and we are all brothers. One or another party has attacked me in peacetime, but now I forgive them wholeheartedly. If our neighbors do not give us peace, then we hope and wish that our good sword will come victorious out of this war !


The sword is drawn, and I cannot sheathe it again without victory and honor. All of you shall and will see to it that only in honor is it returned to the scabbard. You are my guaranty that I can dictate peace to my enemies. Up and at the enemy! Down with the enemies of our way of life! Three cheers for our army!"
-Kaiser Wilhelm II 1914