Thanks to Greg for the link to an article in Slate, looking at a recent study which supposedly demonstrates that political conservatives have brains which are less able to effectively process new information as compared with liberals (at least that’s my summation, based on Slate’s summation). This apparently argues in favor of liberals being smarter people.

The logical next step would be to come up with a drug to compensate for this odd inadequacy in the cerebrums of conservatives. All in all, it would surely be best to diagnose the condition as early as possible and start administering the corrective medication in kindergarten or in the lower grades. Do I sound paranoid? I guess. It probably goes hand in hand with my other brain dysfunctions. Yet, with the way in which we’ve seen a lot of early childhood behavior become clinicized and pharmacologized in recent years, maybe it’s not so far-fetched. At least we know which way Barry Manilow would come down on the issue. “Drug ’em up before they get dangerous, like that Elisabeth Hasselbeck chick! She terrifies me!”

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