I threw up a last minute post on testosterone poisoning which reminded Karen at Peripetia of an earlier post on the Shrubbery’s use of testosterone in his exercise regime which resulted in her new post: Brain Death Silence.
The process is similar to Alzheimer’s and produces mood swings. No doubt the apologists will use this to excuse his abuses. We have a complete copy of King George, including the madness.
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That was a fascinating article on King George III’s arsenic-induced madness. It leads me to issue a categorical denial: I have not been feeding arsenic to our preznit. 🙂
Goodness knows what he feeds himself, though. Is he on the sauce again? Is he still taking steroids? Do his doctors pump him full of meds to get him through the day? There has to be something. Stella of course will not diagnose long-distance, but she has remarked during Bush’s speeches and other public appearances that his gestures and tics are those of someone either seriously ill or strongly medicated. And for many years it was her profession to know about such things, so I tend to believe her.
I’ve always pooh-poohed the “great [wo]man” theory of history, believing instead that the confluence of ideas and available technologies shaped the times more than even the most strikingly unusual individuals… unusual for good or for ill. But the more I read of England’s King George III and our own monarch, whose royal highness manifests itself more vigorously every day, the more I think I may have been wrong in my belief.
(Aside: a decade or so ago, there was a local musical group in Houston’s Montrose, an all-male group called The TestosterTones. Top that name if you can!)
The article on testosterone seems to indicate that there is actual cell damage, which might look like mini-strokes depending on where the damage occurs. If you add it to a brain already in trouble from cocaine and alcohol abuse, the results wouldn’t be pretty.
I don’t know that it is the individual so much as the group around that individual that has the greatest effect. Alone, an individual can’t wreck the havoc that the efforts of a host of followers. The Shrubbery, by virtue of 9/11, has been able to make radical changes to the US, and there is no organized opposition to his actions.
Yep, one has to wonder how much damage old Shrubs has done to his brain – even if they now understood the *correct* dosages for this hormone treatment – he’s been doing this for years and years.
We will look back upon this period a Dark Days for our Republic…but I am optimisitic for better days ahead. (Though that doesn’t mean it might not get worse afore it gets better!)
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