Comments on: Epitath for a Bobo

By: basilbeast

basilbeast — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:45:55 +0000

EPI TAT, heh.

Tattoed onto that billboard space of noggin, “NumbNuts”.

“Dr. Gumby”.

By: MNGus

MNGus — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:43:20 +0000

Bobo couldn’t pass Sociology 101. It will be interesting to see how he handles neuroscience. Okay, not interesting exactly. Oh, you know what I mean.

By: quakerinabasement

quakerinabasement — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:13:33 +0000

Epitath? I think you mean epitaph? Epithet?

By: JGabriel

JGabriel — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:58:23 +0000

TBogg:

A reminder once again that Times Select was more of a prophylactic

I find myself missing the long gone days of yore, when one had to hunt down Krugman’s columns via Technorati and all the rest were safely sealed from view by natural laziness and disinclination.

We didn’t know how good we had it then.

By: madalton

madalton — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:02:47 +0000

I saw this in a throwaway article on brain imaging in this month’s Atlantic: “Brooks, who is writing a book about the brain…” All the authority of a papal encyclical on human sexuality.

I anticipate that the thesis for the book will be “American’s brains are like this, but liberal’s brains are all like this. Haw haw, liberals!”

By: DennisSGMM

DennisSGMM — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:52:16 +0000

Bobo’s mind is aglow with whirling transient nodes of
thought, careening through a cosmic vapor of invention.

By: Crosstimbers

Crosstimbers — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:23:56 +0000

Yes, but maybe fighter pilot/POW experience qualifies him in neuroscience. Oh no, that was someone else and another job.

By: moondancer

moondancer — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:02:34 +0000

I listened to part of the talk, it had nothing to do with neuroscience and he looked like a stunned mullet giving the speech.

By: SnarkiChildOfLoki

SnarkiChildOfLoki — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:38:39 +0000

Imagine having a horrible accident, being taken to surgery, and just before administering the anesthetic, the nurse says “..and here’s your brain surgeon, Dr. Brooks” and it’s Bobo.

Yeah, that’s a “jerk awake with a strangled scream” type of nightmare.

So what, exactly are Bobo’s qualifications to natter about neuroscience? I think he’s automatically disqualified by not having much functional gray matter himself.